With the world’s eye on China for the Winter Olympics, Chinese streaming platform Tencent Video has reportedly reversed its decision to censor the ending of David Fincher’s iconic 1999 film “Fight Club”.
Late last month came word that the film’s original ending had been cut with a full twelve minutes of footage replaced with an on-screen text indicating the cops arrested the criminals, prevented the building explosions, and sent Tyler Durden off to a mental asylum.
THR now reports that the streamer has done an about-face and restored 11 of the 12 minutes it cut, the one minute it didn’t was the footage depicting Tyler and Marla’s sex scene.
The change also follows in the wake of author Chuck Palahniuk discussing the changed ending, saying ironically it adhered closer to his book and noted how his books are still heavily banned throughout the United States to this day.
Source: THR
