'Fight Club' gets alternative ending in China

Yahoo Entertainment

January 25, 2022 at 1:38 PM

When it comes to China, the first rule of "Fight Club" should have been: “You do not change the ending to 'Fight Club.'”

In the latest bizarre news from the world of Chinese censors versus Hollywood, the nation’s largest streamer, Tencent Video, is showing a version of David Fincher’s 1999 classic thriller that completely cuts the original climactic scenes, replacing them with text on screen that imagines an entirely new finale to the film.

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