Huguenots, actually....
Posted on 10/14/2008 2:06:13 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Filming of a new John Travolta movie on a deprived Paris housing estate has been cancelled - after rioting youths torched ten of the production’s cars and threatened crew.
'From Paris With Love' was meant to have highlighted social problems in the grim suburbs which surround the French capital.
Jobs as extras and support staff were even offered to largely immigrant residents who are plagued by unemployment and discrimination.
But within days of arrived in Les Bosquets, a high rise estate in Montfermeil, in the notorious Seine-Saint-Denis north of the capital, violence broke out.
‘All ten of the vehicles set to be used in the film were burnt out and there were threats aimed at support crew,’ said a production spokesman.
‘There’s no now possibility of Mr Travolta or any of the other stars of the film operating in such a dangerous area.
'The scenes we were mean to do here will now be shot elsewhere.’
‘From Paris With Love’, which will also star British actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, will be legendary French director Luc Besson’s last film.
All those involved hoped the £30 million movie would draw attention to urban communities alienated from mainstream France.
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Mission accomplished.
French Amish Yutes, no doubt...
Why didn’t they just film rioting and put it in the movie?
More like, "Welcome to Paris with Hate".
But Travolta will probably say it wasn’t their fault...unbelievable...biting the hand that is feeding their criminal behinds...
Gosh, isn’t it nice to travel and take in the local culture?
"Immigrant residents" don't want your damn cast-offs. They are looking for the whole 30 million, baby.
In france, rioting youths=Muslim gangs
Film Title:
La terre de champ de bataille
He can always try Detroit. I don't know if it would be any safer though.
Dog bites hand that feeds it.
(Muslim immigrants torch cars of film crew making movie sympathic to muslim immigrants)
Huguenots, actually....
‘The scenes we were mean to do here will now be shot elsewhere.’
There’s a message in there. Seems the producer/director/actor aren’t capable of understanding it though.
“Delicious irony” bump.
I would have thought that Travolta’s extraterrestrial Scientological awareness would have helped him avoid this further demonstration of how the Obamaesque “we’ll just talk with them” mentality usually turns out.
I guess it would be a true movie complete with “social issues” abounding. Probably some poor, misunderstood, disaffected youths.
"How Islam ruined Paris."
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