Paramount Delays Release of Film Version of The Kite Runner to Protect Child Actors
Paramount recently announced it will push back the release of the film version of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner
(Bloomsbury, 2003), directed by Marc Forster, in order to protect its
child actors whose performances, particularly in a rape scene, could
trigger violence in Kabul. Afghan and American officials, as well as
the actors’ families, have expressed concern that the film may
exacerbate hostility between ethnic groups—the politically dominant
Pashtun and the historically oppressed Hazara.
