Petr Škuta Apple has canceled one of its upcoming series for the Apple TV+ service. The series Bastards was to be part of the exclusive offer and Richard Gere was to take the lead role.
However, the company decided that the series would contain too much violence, so it was canceled instead. And this despite the fact that he will now pay an unspecified contractual penalty. Apple TV+ is coming for one of the exclusive series a few months before the launch.
The series Bastards was supposed to tell the story of two veterans from the Vietnam War. They live their monotonous lives until their mutual friend and love is killed in a car accident. In both of them, impulses above life awaken and they begin to show them to the world. They choose spoiled millennials who value nothing as victims.
However, while writing the script, there was a major split between the creators and Apple. While the screenwriters wanted to add a dark background and thus violence, shooting and action, Apple was more emotional and wanted to focus on the friendly bond between the two veterans.
According to Eddy Cue, Apple does not interfere in the scenarios
However, the split went so far that work on the series completely stopped and the company eventually ended Bastards. Eddy Cue, who oversees content for iTunes, commented on the situation as follows:
“I've seen comments that me and Tim write comments for each scenario. We have never done anything like that, I can assure you. We let people who know what they're doing work on the content."
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Nevertheless, the cooperation ends and a question mark hangs over the content for Apple TV+. Apple is known for its very politically correct attitude towards absolutely everything. The company tries to avoid all violence, sex, or political incorrectness, and it doesn't even have to be about the terms of applications in the App Store, but also content on iTunes and others.
It is very likely that Apple can deprive itself of interesting content that would otherwise attract viewers and subscribers to the Apple TV+ service with this selective attitude.
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