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Martin Scorsese Explains How Seth Rogen “Ruined” His ‘Cleopatra’ Film: “Kim Jong Un Doesn’t Have A Sense Of Humor”

Martin Scorsese’s “Cleopatra” never came to fruition, and he says the Angelina Jolie-starrer was nixed because of Seth Rogen and the Sony hack.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated October 31, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC
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  • For those who need a refresher, Sony emails were hacked in November 2014 by a group that hoped the Seth Rogen comedy “The Interview,” which was about a fictional assassination attempt of […].

More than a decade after the Sony hack shook Hollywood, Martin Scorsese is still reeling from the fallout of the North Korean state-sponsored digital attack.

The Oscar-winning director recalled how the wide-reaching hack, which was a response to Seth Rogen’s 2014 film The Interview, “ruined everything” for Scorsese’s planned Cleopatra feature, which would have starred […].

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