The Interview is a 2014 American comedy film produced and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The screenplay is by Dan Sterling, based upon a story he co-authored with Rogen and Goldberg. The film stars Rogen and James Franco who are journalists in the movie, set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. North Korean leader likes these journalists, as they were having a great show in America. So he decided to have an interview. CIA provided them with initial training about how to assassinate the North Korean leader. The humor and dialogue delivery makes this a very comedy movie. One journalist spends some extra time with the leader and he realizes that he is not a that bad person as portrayed by the American media. This caused a conflict among the two mates. One between them stepped back from the mission and wants to enjoy a healthy friendship with the leader. He thought that he is a very kind-hearted person and peace loving. He loves his own people and people are happily living their lives, but he was not right as shown in the movie. Later he got to know that he was not correct. He was very wrong about he views. All the things he has seen were fabricated and not for real. The night he realized all these things was the last night before the final interview. In the interview he asked very open and blunt questions from the leader, he got shocked. This scene ended up revealing the real face of the leader by attacking the journalists and stopping them to continue the show and going back to their home country. Many army men helped them to escape. This shows that people in the country were not very happy with a leader.
Both the countries are hostile for each other and there are certain facts which must be revealed and there are certain which must not be. Overall it was a very worthy movie to watch, but there are some things which must be avoided. The leader of any state is a leader overall. Opinions may differ. This movie because of such a controversy faced many difficulties in the release. Both the countries again had a conflict over this movie. This movie was watched by millions of people.
The film is also heavily inspired by a documentary which was shot in 2012. Rogen and Goldberg developed the idea for The Interview in the late 2000s, with Kim Jong-il as the original assassination target. In 2011, after Jong-il's death, Jong-un replaced him as the North Korean leader. Rogen and Goldberg re-developed the script with the focus on Jong-un's character. The announcement for the film was made in March 2013. Principal photography took place in Vancouver from October to December 2013. In June 2014, the North Korean government threatened action against the United States if Columbia Pictures released the film. Columbia delayed the release from October to December and reportedly re-edited the film to make it more acceptable to North Korea. In November, the computer systems of parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment were hacked by the "Guardians of Peace", a group the FBI claims has ties to North Korea. The group also threatened terrorist attacks against cinemas that showed the film. Major cinema chains opted not to release the film, leading Sony to release it for online rental and purchase on December 24, 2014, followed by a limited release at select cinemas the next day. The Interview grossed $40 million in digital rentals, making it Sony's most successful digital release, and earned an additional $12.3 million worldwide at the box office on a $44 million budget. It received mixed reviews for its humor and subject matter, although a few critics praised the performances of Rogen, Franco, Park and Diana Bang.
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