Okay, okay, we get it. James Franco is an acquired taste. But we doubt anyone would go so far as to mobilize a "9/11" style attack on a movie theater screening one of his films just to avoid having to watch him act. But then again, they're not the Sony hackers …
Okay, okay, we get it. James Franco is an acquired taste. But we doubt anyone would go so far as to mobilize a "9/11" style attack on a movie theater screening one of his films just to avoid having to watch him act. But then again, they're not the Sony hackers …
Today, the anonymous group of hackers threatened to terrorize any movie theaters that screen James Franco and Seth Rogen's new movie "The Interview." So far, the only motive for the threat authorities could think of is that the movies satirize North Korea and Kim Jong-un.
Here's the letter the hackers published:
We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.More to come.
Man, someone really hates Sony. Past messages from the hacker group have included budgets to Sony films, salary information of top executives, and employee medical records and social security numbers.
North Korea, by the way, denied involvement, but praised the hackers for the attack.
However, an important caveat is that as of press time, the Department of Homeland Security does not have any evidence of a plot to terrorize the movie screenings. Neither Sony nor theaters have made an effort to pull the movie. It seems like the group released a message that had no legs to stand on, and that the threat may be a fake one.
The weirdest fake one of all time.
We live in an age where technology makes it easier and easier to fuck with people, and hackers the kings of this phenomenon. However, this is a really, truly bizarre thing to make up. Why go through the effort for something so nonsensical and specific? Why chose a Hollywood film as an attack target, as opposed to something bigger and more influential like a government building? And what are they going to do, fly planes into every movie theater that premiers "The Interview"? Look, the movie isn't Oscar-worthy or anything, but it's not that bad.
And more importantly, where were these threats when Big Booty Babes Volume XI came out? If these hackers are going to fuck with our movie watching habits, they might as well help us out and save us some cash, because Volume XI was a joke compared to Volume X.
Nevertheless, we think we'll be enjoying "The Interview" from the safety of our bean bag chairs this time around. Hopefully home theaters aren't include in the hacker's list of screening locations. In the meantime, Sony hackers, warn people about "Interstellar." That movie sucked.
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