Its fairly standard practice for big-budget movies to go through digital alterations during post-production. Its not standard practice, however, for a country to declare said film an act of war. That movie would be Sony Pictures now-highly-scrutinized The Interview, a comedy about two journalists (Seth Rogen and James Franco) who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony is digitally altering thousands of buttons… [that] depict the actual hardware worn by the North Korean military to honor Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il. THRs source claims clearance issues led to the change.
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