Sony made no mistake in pulling The Interview, the company’s chairman insists, despite President Obama’s assertion that they did just that.
Michael Lynton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Sony “experienced the worst cyberattack in American history and persevered under enormous stress for months.”
Lynton tries to shift blame onto the theaters at “the crucial moment that the threat came out, from what was called the GOP at the time”.
“The movie theaters came to us one by one over the course of a very short period of time, and announced that the would not carry the film. At that point we had no [choice] but to not proceed. And that’s all.”
The CEO even argued “we have not backed down” and said that Sony still has “every desire to have the American public see this movie.”
He said the company is considering “a number of options”, but that it requires an intermediary such as Netflix or a video-on-demand distributor. None, he said, have “stepped forward and said they are willing.”
“We don’t have that direct interface with the American public.”
Asked by Zakaria whether he’d still make the film, Lynton tried to put on a brave face: “I would make the movie again, for the same reasons we made it in the first place. It was a funny comedy, it served as political satire. Knowing what I know now we might’ve done some things slightly differently, but I think a lot of events have overtaken us in a way we have no control of.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/19/obama-fbi-sony-hack-north-korea-china
Michael Lynton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Sony “experienced the worst cyberattack in American history and persevered under enormous stress for months.”
Lynton tries to shift blame onto the theaters at “the crucial moment that the threat came out, from what was called the GOP at the time”.
“The movie theaters came to us one by one over the course of a very short period of time, and announced that the would not carry the film. At that point we had no [choice] but to not proceed. And that’s all.”
The CEO even argued “we have not backed down” and said that Sony still has “every desire to have the American public see this movie.”
He said the company is considering “a number of options”, but that it requires an intermediary such as Netflix or a video-on-demand distributor. None, he said, have “stepped forward and said they are willing.”
“We don’t have that direct interface with the American public.”
Asked by Zakaria whether he’d still make the film, Lynton tried to put on a brave face: “I would make the movie again, for the same reasons we made it in the first place. It was a funny comedy, it served as political satire. Knowing what I know now we might’ve done some things slightly differently, but I think a lot of events have overtaken us in a way we have no control of.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/19/obama-fbi-sony-hack-north-korea-china
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