Entertainmentscreenshot/"The Interview"The character who plays North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in "The Interview."
In the latest in a series of scary cyber attacks, the Sony hackers - who have been calling themselves "Guardians of Peace" (GOP) - are now threatening the premiere of "The Interview" and theaters where it will be shown after the movie's Christmas Day release.
A new message from the GOP on filesharing services containing links to the latest hacked documents reveals that the group plans a "bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to" and "We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time."
They then chillingly add: "Remember the 11th of September 2001."
Read the full message below (via BuzzFeed):
Warning
We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places "The Interview" be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to.
Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made.
The world will be full of fear.
Remember the 11th of September 2001.
We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.
(If your house is nearby, you'd better leave.)
Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
All the world will denounce the SONY.
"The Interview," a James Franco and Seth Rogen comedy about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was was denounced by the Pyongyang government as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon all the way back in June.
Since then, a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace have attacked Sony Entertainment in a series of cyber hacks ahead of the movie's Dec.2th release.
While last week's Los Angeles premiere of "The Interview" went off without a hitch, it sounds like the GOP is now threatening an attack on Thursday's premiere in New York City.