Kandahar is a 2023 film starring Gerard Butler as a freelance agent whose cover is blown and needs to be extracted from a hostile nation. It's a standard action film and a passable way to spend two hours. But I am not here to review this film. I want to talk about this strange movie poster I saw at Ayala.
That is most certainly not the official poster for Kandahar. From the looks of it this movie takes place in a city while Kandahar takes place in the desert. The tag line makes it appear that the movie is about stopping a nuclear attack.
No hostile country can go nuclear.
When the government has no jurisdiction...
They send their best man from the outside to do the job.
Here is the same poster at the Mall of Asia in Manila.
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| https://dprime.kr/g2/bbs/board.php?bo_table=movie&wr_id=2830063 |
However, the Facebook page for The Cinema Exhibitors Association has an altogether different movie poster for Kandahar.
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| https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=813535470358494&id=100451381666910 |
No hostile country can go nuclear.When the government has no jurisdiction, they send their best man from the outside to do the job.
Why are they publishing that tagline when the movie poster says:
The only thing more dangerous than the mission is the escape.
It's weird but it gets even more bizarre. The picture of Gerard Butler being used in this movie poster is from the movie Plane!
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| https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-do-in-paris/cinema-series/articles/287504-mayday-the-action-movie-with-gerard-bultler-review-and-trailer |
It's known as Mayday in France but it's the same movie. A close look at the hand holding the gun shows that it is definitely photoshopped over this picture of Gerard Butler. There are tattoos on the fingers.
So, why does the Philippine movie poster for Kandahar feature a wrong tagline, a wrong picture of Gerard Butler, and a wrong setting? The movie poster database has several editions ofthe Kandahar movie poster none of them look like the Philippine version.
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| https://www.movieposterdb.com/kandahar-i5761544?v=posters |
It is all rather strange.
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