{"id":493482,"date":"2026-03-24T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:58:13","slug":"zendayas-the-drama-condemned-by-parent-of-columbine-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493482\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya’s ‘The Drama’ Condemned by Parent of Columbine Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zendaya’s ‘The Drama’
\n Columbine Massacre Parent Pissed Over Plot<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 24, 2026
\n 12:00 PM PDT
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\n Updated
\n March 24, 2026
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Zendaya<\/a>‘s dark rom-com “The Drama” isn’t in theaters until next week … and its shocking twist is already being denounced by someone closely connected to a related tragedy.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … the A24 flick starring Zendaya\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Pattinson<\/a> is being marketed as a fun wedding flick … but a dark plot twist is shocking the hell out of early unsuspecting viewers … and the news has spread.<\/p>\n

Warning: Major spoilers ahead!<\/p>\n

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Tom Mauser — whose son Daniel was murdered in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre — tells TMZ \u2026 he’s disgusted the movie’s twist is Zendaya’s character confessing to her fianc\u00e9, played by Pattinson, she planned a high school shooting — but got cold feet at the last moment.<\/p>\n

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Mauser — an outspoken gun reform activist<\/a> ever since his son was murdered — says he’s completely floored that anyone would think a school shooting would be a good fit for a romantic comedy, even a dark one … and tells us it’s \u201cawful\u201d that of all the shocking twists to make someone rethink their partner \u2026 this is where the filmmakers landed.<\/p>\n

Mauser tells us … he was particularly irked by Zendaya recently on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, where Mauser thought she was laughing off the twist — as Jimmy<\/a> seemed to be taking how it would impact some viewers much more seriously. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mauser feels the subject in a rom-com starring a beloved actress like Zendaya \u201chumanizes\u201d shooters — and \u201cnormalizes\u201d the shootings. To reiterate … Z’s character did not go through with the shooting — and mass violence is not depicted in the film.<\/p>\n

To be clear … Mauser doesn’t think anyone who has ever considered violence, but not gone through with it, should be condemned — on the contrary, he’s encouraging anyone who has had these ideations to go talk it out with a therapist. However, Mauser doesn’t want it to be used for entertainment.<\/p>\n

We’re out to A24 for comment … so far, no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zendaya’s ‘The Drama’ Columbine Massacre Parent Pissed Over Plot Published March 24, 2026 12:00 PM PDT | Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}