{"id":662235,"date":"2026-10-31T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662235\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:16:10","slug":"martin-scorsese-on-how-seth-rogen-ruined-his-cleopatra-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/662235\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese On How Seth Rogen &#8220;Ruined&#8221; His &#8216;Cleopatra&#8217; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore than a decade after the Sony hack shook Hollywood, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/martin-scorsese\/\" id=\"auto-tag_martin-scorsese\" data-tag=\"martin-scorsese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Scorsese<\/a> is still reeling from the fallout of the North Korean state-sponsored digital attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Oscar-winning director recalled how the wide-reaching hack, which was a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/seth-rogen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_seth-rogen\" data-tag=\"seth-rogen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Rogen<\/a>\u2018s 2014 film The Interview, \u201cruined everything\u201d for Scorsese\u2019s planned <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cleopatra\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cleopatra\" data-tag=\"cleopatra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleopatra<\/a> feature, which would have starred Angelina Jolie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cRemember we were gonna do Cleopatra at one point, and then they made fun of [<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kim-jong-un\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kim-jong-un\" data-tag=\"kim-jong-un\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Jong Un<\/a>], and he got mad and he blew up everybody at Columbia,\u201d he told daughter Francesca Scorsese on Tribeca\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Fn_Pa2BFgpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crafty<\/a>. \u201cSeth Rogen, right? And then he got mad, and [it] ruined Cleopatra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMartin added, \u201cWe were gonna do it. We were ready on the script. Angelina Jolie\u2014We were going. She was gonna be Cleopatra VII. It was gonna be really wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Francesca told her father she\u2019s \u201cso mad about\u201d the fate of the film, Martin quipped, \u201cWell, tell Seth, because they ruined everything. Just because Kim Jong Un doesn\u2019t have a sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn The Interview, co-written and directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, celebrity tabloid show host Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapaport (Rogen) land a rare interview with Kim Jong Un (Randall Park). When the CIA catches wind, they enlist the pair to assassinated the North Korean dictator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite the unintended consequences of The Interview, Scorsese and Rogen have moved on, as the former even played himself in last year\u2019s debut episode of the latter\u2019s Apple TV series The Studio. Since Rogen\u2019s studio head character Matt Remick ends up responsible for Scorsese\u2019s passion project getting axed, could the storyline be another meta example of life imitating art in the smash show?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a decade after the Sony hack shook Hollywood, Martin Scorsese is still reeling from the fallout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,298077,146,85,46,107434,7643,888,298078],"class_list":["post-662235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cleopatra","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-seth-rogen","tag-sony-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}