15 Most Controversial Films Of The Decade (So Far)

15. The Interview

What's It About? James Franco stars in The Interview as Dave Skylark, the popular host of the show Skylark Tonight who, after discovering that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a huge fan of the show, sets out with his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) to interview him. The CIA, seeing this as a potentially unique opportunity to topple the dictator, propose that they assassinate Jong-un with a specially prepared ricin strip which would infect the leader from a handshake. Why Was It Controversial? Having a fictional scenario in which the CIA plot to kill a real life political leader isn't something that's been done before, most likely for obvious reasons of causing offense to the intended "target". And, sure enough, the North Korean government were none too pleased with the plot of The Interview, pointing out (fairly accurately) that this was essentially "a film about the assassination of a foreign leader mirrors what the US has done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine" The film was further disrupted thanks to hackers, who broke into Sony's network and leaked a number of unreleased titles onto torrent sites. Amidst all the controversy one fact finally began to emerge - The Interview just isn't all that funny in the first place.