North Korea’s dictator leader Kim Jong Un isn’t pleased with Seth Rogen and James Franco’s upcoming film The Interview. Rightfully so, the movie describes two journalist (Rogen & Franco) that travel to North Korea to assassinate Kim Jong Un. While we understand that this will be a comedy movie, clearly it doesn’t put America in a better position with the North Korea. In fact, Kim Jong Un has already released a statement talking about the upcoming film.
[Yahoo News Excerpt]
The film is due to be released in the United States on October 14.
In a statement carried by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, a foreign ministry spokesman said the film was the work of “gangster moviemakers” and should never be shown.
“The act of making and screening such a movie that portrays an attack on our top leadership… is a most wanton act of terror and act of war, and is absolutely intolerable,” the spokesman said.
In his statement, he called on the US administration to ban the film from being screened and warned that failure to do so would trigger a “resolute and merciless response”.
It is not the first time Hollywood has poked fun at a North Korean leader.
In the 2004 satirical action comedy “Team America,” Kim’s father Kim Jong-Il was portrayed as a speech-impaired, isolated despot.
In the official trailer for “The Interview” a CIA officer calls North Korea the “most dangerous country on earth”, and briefs the Rogen and Franco characters on the cult of personality surrounding the Kim family dynasty.
“Kim Jong-Un’s people believe everything he tells them, including that he can speak to dolphins, or that he doesn’t urinate or defecate,” the officer says.
Played by Korean-American actor Randall Park, Kim appears in the trailer as an overweight, cigar-chomping dictator, surrounded by security guards.
The scenes set in Pyongyang were filmed in Vancouver.
What do you think about this trailer and the current words from Kim Jong Un? Do you think America should be egging on a country that already hates us?! Let us know what you think below.
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