{"id":32980,"date":"2021-06-11T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T03:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/film-about-jacinda-arderns-response-to-christchurch-massacre-triggers-anger-new-zealand"},"modified":"2021-06-11T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:18:08","slug":"christchurch-massacre-move-to-make-film-all-about-ardern-triggers-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32980","title":{"rendered":"Move to make Christchurch massacre film all about Jacinda Ardern sparks anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say focus on the prime minister glosses over the experience of the Muslims still struggling with aftermath of mosque shootings<\/p>\n<p>Plans for a Hollywood film focusing on prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/christchurch-shooting\">Christchurch mosque terror attacks<\/a> have prompted frustration and disgust in New Zealand, with accusations that Muslim victims have been sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>The film is set to star Australian actor Rose Byrne as Ardern, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/rose-byrne-jacinda-ardern-andrew-niccol-cannes-they-are-us-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-1234965908\/\">according to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, and is called They Are Us \u2013 a line derived from one of Ardern\u2019s speeches at the time. It is to be directed by New Zealand film-maker Andrew Niccol, and produced by FilmNation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/film-about-jacinda-arderns-response-to-christchurch-massacre-triggers-anger-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say focus on the prime minister glosses over the experience of the Muslims still struggling with aftermath of mosque shootingsPlans for a Hollywood film focusing on prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s response to the Christchurch mosque terror atta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions\/33001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}