George R.R. Martin offers to screen The Interview

The big entertainment news of the past day, has been about Seth Rogen and James Franco’s film The Interview, which has been pulled from theaters by Sony Pictures after the hackers responsible for gaining access to confidential Sony documents threatened violence to any theater chains that went through with the film’s planned Christmas Day release. Pretty much everyone who’s anyone in both politics and entertainment has had an opinion on the matter–including A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin.

When news hit that Sony would be pulling the film, Martin took to his “Not a Blog” to chastise everyone involved in the decision, calling it an act of “corporate cowardice.” To wit:

It’s a good thing these guys weren’t around when Charlie Chaplin made THE GREAT DICTATOR.  If Kim Jong-Un scares them, Adolf Hitler would have had them shitting in their smallclothes.

But Martin isn’t just offering angry words…

The author then states at the bottom of the post that his theater, the Jean Cocteau, would be all too happy to screen the film. Commenters to the post mentioned that the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX was planning to show Team America: World Police instead. In his followup post from yesterday, Martin describes how that went:

…Paramount has now decided to withdraw TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE from exhibition.  We won’t be allowed to show the film, and neither will Alamo, nor any of the other independent venues that wanted to use TA:WP to replace THE INTERVIEW.

So it went about as well as Theon’s attempt at taking Winterfell, at least for Theon. Many other people have suggested the idea of Sony leaking the film online (including Mitt Romney, who attaches a suggested $5 donation to help fight ebola) but it seems that, despite the combined powers of George Raymond Richard Martin and Willard Mitt Romney, this Interview is over..

• Published on 12/19/2014 at 8:00 AM CDT
• Last updated on 12/19/2014 at 8:00 AM CDT