<p>Hollywood has chosen the USA over China after it responded to the outcry from fans who noticed the Taiwanese flag was missing from the bomber jacket worn by Tom Cruise&#8217;s character in the trailer of &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick.&#8221;</p>
<p>The patch, originally seen on the back of Lieutenant Pete &#8216;Maverick&#8217; Mitchell&#8217;s black leather jacket in the 1986 film &#8220;Top Gun,&#8221; was missing in the 2019 trailer for the then-long-awaited sequel to the movie, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10868357/Top-Gun-reinstates-Taiwanese-flag-Mavericks-jacket-removing-trailer-angering-China.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.</p>
<p>It was part of a variety of patches from Mitchell&#8217;s father&#8217;s tours in Japan and Taiwan from 1963 to 1964. At the time, in place of the flags were random symbols believed to be appealing to the communist nation&#8217;s political demands.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket &#8211; only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/gUxFNFNUKX">pic.twitter.com/gUxFNFNUKX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) <a href="https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/1152241649893945346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
<p>However, when fans finally got a chance to see the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-gun-maverick-on-pace-to-be-tom-cruises-largest-box-opening-success-ever-crushing-pre-pandemic-numbers">59-year-old actor</a> reprise his famed character&#8217;s role this weekend, they noticed it was back in the worldwide release.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It might just be a middle finger to China. <a href="https://t.co/RqH9BQFFnm">https://t.co/RqH9BQFFnm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; VICE (@VICE) <a href="https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1530307967115055107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;It is unprecedented,&#8221; Ho Siu Bun, a film critic in Hong Kong, told <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb5wd/tom-cruises-jacket-top-gun-maverick-taiwan-moviegoers-clapping?utm_source=vice_facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=VICE_Twitter&amp;utm_medium=social+">VICE World News</a>. &#8220;Major film studios have never been shy about pandering to the Chinese market. And even if it is a simple scene, editing is very costly. So no one knows why they changed it back.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the Taiwan screening, audiences reportedly cheered and clapped when their flag appeared, the outlet noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;To be honest, Tom [Cruise] doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to wear the same jacket in the opening scene. There&#8217;s no way film producers didn&#8217;t know the Republic of China flag would cross the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s red line,&#8221; a Taiwanese film writer, who goes by the moniker Knee Joint, wrote on Facebook. The Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan. &#8220;But they still did it anyway.&#8221;</p>
<p>There was speculation that the original decision might have been due to the Chinese film distributor and production company Tencent Pictures, which was helping finance the highly-anticipated sequel with Paramount. However, it ended up backing out over the &#8220;film&#8217;s themes and closeness with the US military,&#8221; which could upset China.</p>
<p>The movie is turning out to be Cruise&#8217;s biggest opening of his career and is projected to bring in more than $150 million at the box office over the Memorial Day weekend four-day release, the Hollywood Reporter reported. It is also turning out to be the largest opening a film has ever had at the domestic box office during the same holiday weekend.</p>
<p>At the time of this publication, there was no word yet on a release date in China, the outlet noted.</p>

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