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To keep the story off the air. news outlets don't typically act that way. their job is to bring then news to the public not hide the news. what happened in this case. nbc news president noah oppenheim may be the key to that question. he doesn't just oversee nbc news, he's also a screenwriter who has written several films. apparently profiting from his work in hollywood even as he runs the network's news division. screen writers, of course, d are dependent on film producers of home harvey weinstein was perhaps the most powerful of awesome the conflict there is obvious, did it effect how nbc tre...

Later, even though it was challenging, i said yeah, i want to do that. >> the other thing about this movie is that the cast is phenomenal. when you told me the cast, i thought it was a joke, like, we have these people. and i thought, man, how did that come together? >> you know, that was one of the -- it's actually for other screen writers or directors, they will hate me for the story i'm about to tell, but it basically was, i, you know, wrote this script, i had a little board next to my computer that were my dream choices, and they were ridiculous. it was christian bale, it was brad pitt, ste...

It's about corruption, it's about the insider, the outsider. it's obviously about banking. it's funny. it's tragic. and i just could never get it off my brain. so it was a couple of years later, even though it was challenging, i said yeah, i want to do that. >> the other thing about this movie is that the cast is phenomenal. when you told me the cast, i thought it was a joke, like, we have these people. and i thought, man, how did that come together? >> you know, that was one of the -- it's actually for other screen writers or directors, they will hate me for the story i'm about to tell, but i...

So whether it was the weird places you might find crime or something in our own backyards, we wanted to do a multilayered perspective on that to give the audience more perspective outside of what we might read in the newspaper. >> so fascinating. we could sit here all day and talk about the different series of shows you've done. you must be learning so much through this. there's so much more to you. you worked in politics before. something not everyone knows about you. how did that inspire you? like how did you get involved in politics? today many people are like i want nothing to do with that...

They represent screen writers and news writers and public writers and comedy writers. writers should be free to address it without intimidation. >> the theater owners were intimidated. it's a bad day. >> it's a domino effect of this project in development with steve carrel and unflattering views of that country. now canned apparently. how much of an impact do you see this having on any projects that touch on north korea. >> why stop? anyone in power who wants to make a threat theoretically could shut down whatever movie they want. that's the scary part about this. i'm hoping that the entertain...