Column by GallowayOnFilm: How Hollywood can beat the dictators
And producers keep chasing funds that come either directly or indirectly from Saudi Arabia, as if they’ve forgotten that its de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman, was the man who had aIn an unpleasant case of déjà vu, bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, followed young Mussolini’s example last year when he attendedat the home of no less an eminence than Rupert Murdoch, joined by the likes of Disney’s Bob Iger, Fox’s Stacey Snider and Dwayne Johnson.
Only a handful of Hollywood poohbahs had the decency to sever ties at once, following Khashoggi’s death, among them the leaders of Endeavor, whoof a planned $400 million deal with the Saudi government. Have their peers announced the same: that they won’t do business with him, either? That’s precisely the dilemma Hollywood has faced in Atlanta, with industry leaders voicing comforting platitudes without cutting the cord. Only, with countries like Saudi Arabia, things are much, much worse than in Georgia — critics vanish into prisons, women have their rights abused, and sometimes, as we saw, opponents are even assassinated. Hollywood can’t defend itself by saying it wants to keep the locals employed, the compelling argument it uses to justify shooting in the Peach State.
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