What little we know about the movie suggests Verbinski and Conrad had sexed up the plot from Delisle’s original nonfiction narrative: The Wrap reported it was to be “a paranoid thriller about a Westerner’s experiences working in North Korea for a year” the book actually has very little narrative and merely recounts Delisle’s work and wanderings in the titular capital of North Korea for a couple of months. It was to star Steve Carell as an unusual protagonist based on Delisle: an animator visiting one of North Korea’s little-discussed animation studios. But now it’s lost to us forever.ĭirector Gore Verbinski was helming the project, and Steve Conrad had written the screenplay. Unlike the mediocre Rogen/Franco comedy at the center of this hurricane, Pyongyang, the planned film adaptation of cartoonist Guy Delisle’s nonfiction comic book Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, could have been a work of art. Hollywood has never made a great movie about North Korea, and now it’s uncertain whether it ever will.
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