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Steve Carell's North Korea-Based Thriller Scrapped After Sony Scandal

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On the heels of news that major theater chains caved to scary threats by hackers and won't be showing Sony's "The Interview," New Regency announced that its new movie based in North Korea is also cancelled.

The thriller film, which was set to star Steve Carell and be directed by Gore Verbinski, would have been titled "Pyongyang." The plot involved a Westerner recounting his experiences of working in North Korea for a year.

The film, written by Steve Conrad, would have been based on Guy Delisle's graphic novel of the same name.

The initial attack on Sony's servers occurred a month before the studio was set to release the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy "The Interview," about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in June.

Since then, there have been a series of cyberattacks against Sony, urging the studio not to release "The Interview."


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