The international news agency AFP reported today (Sunday) that Kuwait will ban the Netflix broadcast of the new film adaptation of the film “Death on the Nile”, starring the Israeli actress Gal Gadot. A senior official in the country told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs that “the Ministry of Information will not allow the screening of the film and it has been removed from the screening lists of the three film companies in the country.”
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information has confirmed to the French media that the citizens of Kuwait will not be able to watch the film at the cinema following a demand on social media to ban and boycott the film. The citizens of Kuwait condemned on social media the praise given by the Israeli actress to the IDF, for which she criticized the terrorist organization Hamas during Operation Eitan in 2014.
Recall that this is not the first boycott of a film starring Gadot. In the past, the Ministry of Information in Kuwait banned the screening of “Wonder Woman” on the grounds that she had previously been a soldier in the “Israeli occupation army.”
A star-studded American-British detective film
The movie by Agatha Christie, is set to be released next month on Netflix worldwide. This is a star-studded American-British detective film directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars in the film alongside Armie Hammer and Gal Gadot. The film is based on a book of the same name from 1937 by the British author and playwright and is a sequel to the 2017 film “Murder on the Orient Express”.
It was first planned that the film would be released on December 20, 2019, then it was announced that the film would be released on December 18, 2020. The release date has been postponed again to an unknown date. On December 11, 2020, it was decided to postpone the release of the film to September 17, 2021. The postponement of the film was finally announced to February 11, 2022, next week.