Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
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With North Korea being back in the news so much recently, it seems as good a time as any to consult Hollywood’s foremost expert on all things related to Kim Jong-un, Seth Rogen. Back in 2014, Rogen and his longtime friend James Franco made a little movie called The Interview, which centered around two bumbling journalists tasked with assassinating the North Korean dictator. Rather than being remembered as a fairly light-hearted comedy about an intercontinental hit job, the film is primarily associated with the infamous Sony hack that went down just prior to its release, which was seen as a retaliatory act by North Korean hackers and led to the film being pulled from most theaters. But, in a recent interview with Vulture, Seth Rogen revealed that he doesn’t see it that way: