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

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

Movie centres around efforts to thwart a terrorist plot in Paris, opened the day before driver killed 84

Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba, has been pulled from theatres in France following the Nice truck attack Thursday.

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

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

StudioCanal spokesman Antoine Banet-Rivet said Saturday that "the film has been withdrawn from cinemas out of respect for the victims and their families."

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

Floral and papers tributes are laid Saturday with a French flag near the scene of a truck attack in Nice, southern France on Bastille Day. (Luca Bruno/The Associated Press)

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.