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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Interview is shaping up to be one of the funniest films of the year. While the premise of two celebrity journalists are set up with an interview with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un (who are then tasked by the CIA to assassinate him) sounds like a one-note joke, this new Red Band trailer for the film makes it seem fantastic. Whenever Rogen and James Franco are paired together, there’s a level of magic and camaraderie between the two that shows in their performances, and The Interview seems to tap and focus in on this better than This is the End did. With this Red Band trailer specifically, they bring a heightened level of sex jokes that are legitimately funny – try telling me seeing Franco talk about his post-sex stank isn’t one of the funniest things you’ve seen this year.
The Interview will be in theaters on Christmas. You can read the film’s synopsis below.
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.