Twitchy reported earlier how the situation with North Korea hacking and threatening Sony Pictures over “The Interview” led to the scrubbing of a Steve Carell project set in North Korea. ‘Hooray for Pyongyangwood’! Vague threats drive ‘feckless’ studio to scrap another NK-set film
Carell expressed his disappointment on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/SteveCarell/status/545360994923323392
Chaplin pic.twitter.com/LE5w3f3HAs
— Steve Carell (@SteveCarell) December 18, 2014
Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, back when Hollywood had the guts to make fun of our enemies instead of kowtowing to—or siding with—them.
https://twitter.com/mariana_farinha/status/545383880203972608
@SteveCarell Okay but this movie wasn't about killing Hitler.
— ?Slut4Scorsese? (@ptandersons) December 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/NadavRaz/status/545404076788183040
Not to mention that for a strongman dictator, being made to look a fool is likely more enraging than a story about him being killed.
https://twitter.com/Cheaptarts/status/545383910423932928
Um…
@Cheaptarts @SteveCarell ppl kill ppl… NOW?!? Uh.. Hitler? Holocaust? Hello?!?
— Tony from Pandora (@tonyfrompandora) December 18, 2014
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Maybe ignorance breeds cowardice.
@SteveCarell – owned his own studio
— dUcK (@Enernoj) December 18, 2014
Free enterprise may be the answer.
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