This is getting out of hand. A second film has been dropped in the wake of the Sony hack. The movie called "Pyongyang", set in North Korea, was to start filming soon. Fox studios declined to further support and distribute the film.
Hollywood and American corporations in general seems to be all talk and very little backbone as of late.
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New Regency has reportedly pulled the plug on a Steve Carell movie set in North Korea after the unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures that a U.S. official has linked to the secretive state.
Carell was set to star in the thriller based on the graphic novel Pyongyang, by Quebec City-born cartoonist Guy Delisle.
The story centres on a young animator who becomes accused of spying in the communist nation. Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was set to direct.
Industry website Deadline Hollywood reported Wednesday that New Regency, a Fox-owned studio, had backed away from the film because Fox "declined to distribute it," said an unnamed spokesperson.
Production was set to begin in March.
Carell hasn't directly commented on the decision, but the actor and star of the new movie Foxcatcher seemed to express his frustration in a Twitter message Wednesday, writing "sad day for creative expression, #feareatsthesoul."
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