She’s taken on powerful villains across the globe, but this super hero may have met her match — the nation of Lebanon.
Officials in the Mideast country are swooping in to ban the new “Wonder Woman” in movie theaters because its star is an Israeli, according to a report Tuesday.
The country’s ministry of economy wants to ban the Amazing Amazon because its lead actress — Gal Gadot — has praised the Israeli military on social media, according to a Lebanese security official.
“[Soldiers] are risking their lives protecting my country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas,” the 32-year-old actress wrote on Facebook in 2014, during the Gaza-Israel war.
An advance screening of the action flick — based on the DC Comics hero and feminist icon — is still scheduled for Wednesday in Beirut, where posters and digital billboards for the movie have popped up.
The boycott group Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon has pushed for the ban, calling the Israeli-born actress and model a soldier in the Israeli army.
Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and has a decades-old law that boycotts Israeli products and bars its citizens from traveling to the country and having contact with its citizens.
The country is allowed more freedom of expression than other countries in the region but is still subject to censorship.
Earlier this year, an Egyptian movie and a Lebanese movie were banned in Lebanon.
A formal request for the movie ban had not yet been filed Tuesday, the Lebanese security official said.
A band on the film would ultimately come from the country’s interior minister, following a recommendation from the six-member committee, the official said Tuesday.
Despite the controversy in Lebanon, it is still scheduled to hit the theaters as scheduled on June 22 in Oman and June 29 in Bahrain. In the U.S., “Wonder Woman” opens June 2 .
Officials at the Lebanese economy ministry, a six member committee, were not immediately available for comment.