When Sony Pictures released the first trailer for 'The Interview' in June, North Korea, as it's prone to do, threatened "merciless retaliation" for such an "act of war." Now, as the movie's Christmas release date is inching closer, the DPRK may have gone through with it.
Well, if by "merciless retaliation" they meant "a huge head ache to Sony's tech team." It's not exactly a nuke, but a recent hacker attack on Sony's servers resulted in the leak of at least five upcoming movies, disabled the company's email threatened to release "secrets and top secrets" of the company.
Screens at Sony Pictures were graced with this lovely skeletor-image during the hack, which features, among other things, some pretty spotty English. It also uses "malicious code [that is] exactly the same as the code used in a March 2013 attack on a series of South Korean banks and broadcasters," according to the Wall Street Journal, which adds further credence to the North Korea-as-attacker theory.
The hackers used the moniker #GOP, which could mean that either America's republican party has taken a very odd turn, or that it represents the "Guardians of Peace" hacker group.
After watching the movie's latest trailer, we must say it's a shame that the hackers didn't just delete all trace that this film ever existed:
The Verge notes that North Korea has been "intensely critical" of the upcoming film (and after watching that trailer, we share their feelings), to the point where Sony already felt obligated to edit out a scene "in which Kim Jong-un's face melts off in slow motion." Movie fans everywhere surely mourn the loss.
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