The trailer for James Franco and Seth Rogen’s new comedy The Interview has just been released.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg made their directorial debut last year with the summer hit comedy This is the End, and this year they’re releasing their second directorial feature The Interview which they wrote with Dan Sterling. Like the prior, this film will star Rogen and James Franco.
The trailer for the film has just been released on the official Sony YouTube account. Check it out:
As the trailer shows, The Interview will star Franco as a reporter who lands an interview with Kim Jong-Un (Randall Park). When the U.S. government finds this out, Franco’s reporter character and his producer played by Rogen are tasked with assassinating Jong-Un, something that, obviously, won’t go smoothly.
We’ve been looking forward to this movie for quite some time, and if the trailer is any indication, it looks to be quite hilarious. Rogen and Goldberg already made one of the funniest comedies of the year in Neighbors (as producers), and their written and directed project looks even better.
The poster was revealed earlier tonight by Rogen and Goldberg on their respective Twitter accounts and a larger version was released on Yahoo.
We really like this poster. It’s a really well designed and drawn poster, and those are too rarely released these days in our opinions. And with the line “From the capitalist pigs who brought you Neighbors and This is the End,” it’s hard to go wrong.
Official synopsis:
In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show “Skylark Tonight.” When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.