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The Kite RunnerIs Delayed to Protect Child Stars

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 — The studio distributing “The Kite Runner,” a tale of childhood betrayal, sexual predation and ethnic tension in Afghanistan, is delaying the film’s release to get its three schoolboy stars out of Kabul — perhaps permanently — in response to fears that they could be attacked for their enactment of a culturally inflammatory rape scene.
Executives at the distributor, Paramount Vantage, are contending with issues stemming from the rising lawlessness in Kabul in the year since the boys were cast. [...]

di David M. Halbfinger, articolo completo (9285 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yw York Times 4 ottobre 2007