– Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, talking to Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog about the Pentagon’s decision to stop working with the film “The Avengers.” The issue? The international organization in the movie, S.H.I.E.L.D., has a “murky” relationship with the U.S. government. “We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” Strub continued. “To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything.”
The Wired piece notes that the Defense Department usually happily works with Hollywood studios, recently lending a hand to “Act of Valor” and the not-yet-released film “Battleship.” Mediaite’s Noah Rothman made this point about “Avengers” versus “Battleship,” “So, apparently, this movie is too silly but aliens shooting giant exploding pegs into Naval ships while Rihanna saves the world isn’t.”
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