Trouble

A Disney executive admitted at a conference that its credit thanking the Xinjiang local government for its permission to film in the area -- perhaps granted when said local government was on its coffee break from its attempts to wipe out the Uyghur minority in the region -- "has created issues."

The exec then demonstrated herself a member of the mustelidae family by saying that most of the movie was filmed in New Zealand and just a few shots were filmed in the same region as the many concentration camps in which the Chinese government is holding citizens of its nation who committed the crime of being born of Uyghur heritage. Try transposing that sentence into one that says "only a few of our movie's scenes were actually filmed at Dachau" or "we just used some scenery from Ukraine and we had no idea Stalin's government was starving everyone around us" and you'll see how exonerating it tends not to be.

Still, acknowledgement that the Xinjiang thank-you and the lead actress's support of Hong Kong police actions during anti-democracy crackdowns created "issues" for the movie is a welcome step forward. May their tribe increase.