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Backlash mounts over twist in Robert Pattinson Zendaya romcom The Drama
Disquiet aired over the subject matter of film about a couple whose engagement is upended after they reveal to each other ‘the worst thing you’ve ever done’
TL;DR
- Tom Mauser, whose son was killed in the Columbine High School shootings, is unhappy with the upcoming film 'The Drama'.
- The movie is a dark romantic comedy starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, featuring a twist where Zendaya's character reveals she once planned a school shooting.
- Mauser believes leveraging school shooting subject matter for a romantic comedy is 'awful' and expressed concern over Zendaya's comments about the film's genre ambiguity.
- He feels casting a star like Zendaya humanizes perpetrators and normalizes shootings, despite the character backing out and no violence being depicted.
- A24, the film's studio, has not widely screened it, and early critical reactions have been broadly positive.