“The Interview,” a satirical film about two journalists hired by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is being pulled from all theaters by Sony.
Here’s some background. Some hackers, who have been linked to North Korea, hacked Sony Pictures releasing emails, medical information, personal and financial information and have threatened 9/11-style attacks on any theaters that play the film. Subsequently, theaters began cancelling showings with Carmike, having nearly 300 theater locations in the country, being the major pull out.
“The world will be full of fear,” according to the hackers’ message. “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.) Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.”
Why is Sony pulling the movie over what’s almost 100 percent an empty threat? By pulling the movie, Sony is giving North Korea a victory, and also a say-so in American film culture. By all logic, a coordinated 9/11 attack on every theater in the United States by North Korea damn near impossible.
Remember when North Korea threatened nuclear attacks on America in 2013? Kim Jong Un became an internet laughingstock and we have yet to see the first missile launch. Kim Jong Un is more like a fat, crying baby than a political leader. No one takes this man or his country seriously, and Sony Pictures is foolish for faltering to, what pretty much are, empty threats.
Despite this disgraceful situation, the death scene of Kim Jong Un from “The Interview” was leaked. Thank you, internet. Enjoy.
Update: We DID have a video of the death scene, but it was removed from the hosting site due to copyright violations. Sorry.
By the way, here is an internet-produced iteration of what an attempted North Korean attack on America would look like:
