A “fairly large number” of people were asked to sign and “having put together telethons where you have to get all the networks on board to do the telethon at the same time, the truth is once you get one or two, then everybody gets on board. It is a natural progression. So here, you get the first couple of people to sign it and … well, nobody wanted to be the first to sign on.”
What to do with the cancelled The Interview , George?: “I just talked to Amy an hour ago. She wants to put that movie out. What do I do? My partner Grant Heslov and I had the conversation with her this morning. Bryan and I had the conversation with her last night. Stick it online. Do whatever you can to get this movie out. Not because everybody has to see the movie, but because I’m not going to be told we can’t see the movie. That’s the most important part. We cannot be told we can’t see something by Kim Jong-un, of all f–king people.”
“The truth of the matter is, of course you should be able to make any movie you want. And, you should take the ramifications for it. Meaning, people can boycott the movie and not go see your film. They can say they’ll never see a Sony movie again. That’s all fine. That’s the risk you take for the decision you make. But to say we’re going to make you pull it. We’re going to censor you. That’s a whole other game. That is playing in some serious waters and it’s a very dangerous pool.”
In related news, Sony yesterday released a new TV spot for The Interview . It was titled “In Franco & Rogen We Trust” and was quickly removed from YouTube. Clearly someone made an error and is not going to win any employee of the month awards. Or, it’s part of an elaborate plan to keep everyone interested until such time as freedom rings and we can all gather in fields and squares to exercise our rights to watch Seth Rogen hide weapons up his butt.
Article Appeared @http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stargazing_blog/2014/12/george_clooney_calls_hollywood_out_for_not_signing_so.html