Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic organisation, has asked Sony to put a disclaimer on the corporation's upcoming film based on The Da Vinci Code…Isn’t that already a standard disclaimer on every film, anyway? “Any resemblance to real persons or events is unintended blah blah blah.” It’s so standard, in fact, that I’ve seen it scroll through in the credits of biopics—as if they’ve just forgotten to take it out of the boilerplate.
Opus Dei has written to Sony Corp in Japan seeking a disclaimer on the film "to clarify that it is a work of fantasy and that any similarity with reality is purely coincidental".
John Howard, who gets the hat tip, gives it the snark it deserves:
I fully support this, and I assume we'll be getting disclaimers on all Sony movies from now on, like Spider-Man 3, for example. When Spider-Man first came out, I was all set to travel to New York to see if I could meet the superhero, when someone told me he wasn't real. I wouldn't want anyone else to make the same mistake.In the comments, Chris Howard suggests that the Catholic Church has turned into Dan Brown’s marketing firm—ha.
…Was there a disclaimer on Passion of the Christ? Just curious.
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