--- title: 'The Interview': Sony to Amend Scenes After North Korean Threats description: Sony appears to have yielded to pressure from Pyongyang over an upcoming comedy flick starring Seth Rogen and James Franco canonical: https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/ author: David Stout article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-15T06:43:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:41:11.505Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sony to amend Seth Rogen's 'The Interview' og:description: North Korean supremo Kim Jong Un just didn't see the funny side og:url: https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f1fff82ead5c7bd/69869fa9e8524b5bb16044e8/450831932.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 'The Interview' Barcelona Photocall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sony to amend Seth Rogen's 'The Interview' twitter:description: North Korean supremo Kim Jong Un just didn't see the funny side twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f1fff82ead5c7bd/69869fa9e8524b5bb16044e8/450831932.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sony Will Amend Seth Rogen's _The Interview_ After North Korean Threats > Sponsored content. 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The movie stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, and much to Pyongyang’s dismay its plot follows two American broadcast journalists who are recruited as CIA agents and ordered to assassinate the communist state’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un after they score an interview with him. According to the _Hollywood Reporter_, the studio plans to digitally alter thousands of buttons worn by extras so that they no longer depict the actual buttons worn by the North Korean military to honor Kim Jong Un and his father Kim Jong Il. Sony is also considering cutting a scene where Kim Jong Un’s face is “melted off graphically in slow motion.” In June, North Korean authorities labeled the film a “wanton act of terror” and [threatened](http://time.com/2921071/kim-jong-un-seth-rogen-the-interview-james-franco/) a “merciless” retaliation against the U.S. if the movie was released. _The Interview_ was originally set to hit the big screen in October; however, because of the controversy, its release date has been knocked back to December. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-altering-kim-jong-assassination-725092)\] 'The Interview': Sony to Amend Scenes After North Korean Threats ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/"},"headline":"Sony Will Amend Seth Rogen's The Interview After North Korean Threats","datePublished":"2014-08-15T06:43:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:41:11.505Z","description":"Little Kim doesn't see the funny side","url":"https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/","keywords":["movies","North Korea","Kim Jong Un","kim jong il","james franco","Seth Rogen","the interview"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f1fff82ead5c7bd/69869fa9e8524b5bb16044e8/450831932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Stout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-stout/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f1fff82ead5c7bd/69869fa9e8524b5bb16044e8/450831932.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"'The Interview' Barcelona Photocall","caption":"'The Interview' Barcelona Photocall","creditText":"Miquel Benitez—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3114936/the-interview-north-korea-james-franco-seth-rogen/","name":"Sony Will Amend Seth Rogen's The Interview After North Korean Threats"}}]}] ```