--- description: It's more about gross-out humor than international politics title: 'The Interview' Trailer: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Kim Jong-un Won't Like the New Trailer for _The Interview_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 21, 2014 3:25 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 21, 2014 3:25 PM CUT North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has called _The Interview_, an upcoming James Franco-Seth Rogen comedy about journalists on an undercover mission to assassinate him, an act of war — which makes you wonder what he’ll do when he hears the colorful word James Franco calls him in the new Red Band trailer for the movie. Jong-un reportedly [plans to see the movie](https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/statuses/480079796257304577 "undefined"), which stars Rogen as a TV news producer eager to cover hard news, and Franco as the star journalist who’s granted a rare interview with the dictator. It’s a dream come true for the duo, until a CIA agent played by Lizzy Caplan shows up and asks them to turn their meeting into assassination. But don’t worry if you haven’t kept up with international news lately: “This is not a political movie,” Caplan told TIME earlier this year about the film, which comes out on Christmas Day. “There’s a long line of comedies and satires taking on real, sad, scary situations. It’s just one in a long line of that.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3414470/the-interview-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3414470/the-interview-trailer/"},"headline":"Kim Jong-un Won't Like the New Trailer for The Interview","datePublished":"2014-09-21T15:25:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:19:23.757Z","description":"James Franco calls him something unrepeatable in this Red Band promo","url":"https://time.com/3414470/the-interview-trailer/","keywords":["movies","james franco","the interview"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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/3414470/the-interview-trailer/","name":"Kim Jong-un Won't Like the New Trailer for The Interview"}}]}] ```