{"id":49,"date":"2014-12-24T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fascinating-america.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T15:38:07","slug":"the-interview-was-almost-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fascinating-america.com\/blog\/the-interview-was-almost-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Interview was almost canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You two are going to be in a room alone with Kim [Jong-un], and the CIA would love it if you could take him out<\/span>.”
\n“Hm?”
\n“Take him out.”
\n“For coffee? Dinner? For kimchi<\/a>?”
\n“No, uh, take him out.”
\n“You want us to kill the leader of North Korea?”
\n“Yes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a nutshell<\/span>, this dialogue with a CIA agent (played by Lizzy Caplan) describes the plot<\/a> of The Interview<\/i>, a comedic buddy movie<\/a> about a disillusioned talk-show host (James Franco) and his producer (Seth Rogen). Invited to a rare interview by the reclusive<\/span> North Korean monarch, they jump at the chance to do some serious journalism. The US government has a job for them as well, if only these two men, who haven’t quite grown up, can get their act together<\/span>. But Kim Jong-un, it turns out, is as juvenile<\/span> as they are, and the three of them hit it off<\/span> \u2014 well, for a while, at least.<\/p>\n