RELIGION NEWS SERVICE
By Jana Riess
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| The “Once Upon A Deadpool” film poster. Image courtesy of Fox |
I have a confession to make: I walked out of the first Deadpool movie partway through in 2016, making it the only Marvel-universe movie I haven’t seen (often more times than I care to admit to you). But now a whole slew of Mormons are protesting Deadpool, not because of the movies themselves but because of a poster advertising
Once Upon a Deadpool, which hit theaters yesterday for the holiday season. “Change the Deadpool poster to not mock the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day [sic] Saints,” says the headline. So it’s a painting by a non-Mormon that is associated in Mormon minds—but not necessarily the minds of the rest of the world—with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I [
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| “The Second Coming” by Harry Anderson. Image courtesy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
