Idris Elba film Bastille Day pulled from French theatres after Nice attack

The action film Bastille Day,starring Idris Elba, has been pulledfrom French cinemas following the Nice truck attack that killed 84 people and wounded over 200.

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The movie, which also stars Game of Thronesactor Richard Madden, centres around an effort to thwart a terrorist plot to bomb Paris.

StudioCanal spokesman Antoine Banet-Rivet saidSaturday that "the film has been withdrawn from cinemas out of respect for the victims and their families."

The movie had an April release date forNorth America and the United Kingdom.

He said the film had been playing at 230 movie theatres across France. It came out Wednesday, the day before a truck driver mowed down revellers watching Bastille Day fireworks on the Nice waterfront.