Posted on 12/19/2014 8:41:25 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Filmmakers and Sony Pictures knew the risk to make a movie about the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, said U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, but they made the right choice to not release the film after threats of terrorism.
Yarmuths remarks to Pure Politics Thursday come one day after major theaters pulled the comedy due out Christmas day, leaving Sony to ultimately not distribute the film on any platform.
I questioned their decision initially to make the movie, Yarmuth said. It seems to me to be something that they knew at the time they decided that there was a risk involved they tried to negotiate with Seth Rogen and others on some of the content, so they knew there was a potential problem there.
They probably made the smart decision to withdraw it from circulation at least at this point. Theres a lot of potential damage here.
The movie, a Seth Rogen -James Franco comedy, depicted a duo of bumbling journalists who attempt to assassinate North Koreas leader. Sony Pictures came under fire from hackers, which some have since speculated could be connected to the North Korean government.
In June a UN ambassador for North Korea called the film an act of war.
I think even more so the Koreans if in fact they were the ones responsible for the breach or the hacking of Sonys website and data they obviously have a great deal of power, and I think theres more potential disruption from that kind of capability then there is worry about terrorist activity, Yarmuth said. Im not as concerned as that as I am about what they can do with computer hacking.
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The theaters will show it.
Paramount has now banned Team America from showing. That film with an estimated $30mil budget grossed over $50mil in less than a year after its release.
Seth Rogen’s This is the End, also budgeted at about $32mil grossed 3x that amount in less than 4 months.
Now with all the free press, and attacks on free press, a Seth Rogen produced Team America II would not only gross well, it would likely motivate even more American patriotism.
IMHO, Phil Henrie and Seth Rogen need to team up with Canadian and Japanese funding and beam Team America II into the NK Mind control machines just for General Purpose.
Clinton and Madeline Halfbright gave him that time, and nukes, just as they made 9/11 possible. The EMP threat is sadly inevitable. It is only a matter of scale and geographic coverage. I suspect it won't be as widespread as feared, but for those states affected, the death count will be unprecedented.
Another idiotic pronouncement from my do nothing RAT rep. He’s been very quiet since he lost the Ohio River Bridges Project lawsuit and then showed up at the ground breaking.
They didn’t pull the film. Theaters backed out of showing it.
There’s no question that America’s lawyers are more vicious, more aggressive, and more numerous than the troops of the North Korean army - but no doubt the North Koreans entered into the equation, too.
Yes - and the press just let him get by with that. Before the election he said don’t worry about the bridges - he and Northup were just the same on that so that’s not a reason to vote against him, then immediately after he won he was against the bridges again (indeed, he was on the board of that group of elitists that had been blocking them for many years...maybe even decades). The shutting down of that one bridge is what forced their hand that the bridges were in fact desperately needed.
Paramount? They weren’t involved in Star Wars. :)
It’s a marketin g ploy. I’m watching the interview on Google play in a few minutes.
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