Chilling Effects - Hollywood Studio Pulls Plug on Upcoming Steve Carell Film
Sony announced on Wednesday that it was pulling the plug on The Interview, a raunchy comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, about the attempted assassination of a North Korean dictator. The decision comes after Sony was targeted by a massive cyber attack which compromised terabytes of sensitive and embarrassing company data, which the hackers were releasing drip by drip.
But the episode is already having broader impacts in the industry. Deadline Hollywood reported that another major film to be set in North Korea, starring Steve Carell, has already been canceled:
New Regency has scrapped another project that was to be set in North Korea. The untitled thriller, set up in October, was being developed by director Gore Verbinski as a star vehicle for Foxcatcher star Steve Carell. The paranoid thriller written by Steve Conrad was going to start production in March. Insiders tell me that under the current circumstances, it just makes no sense to move forward
Fox declined to distribute it, per a spokesman.
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