Kanye West wants his own feature length film, Sony cyber hack reveals
The rapper is also said to have a cameo role in James Franco and Seth Rogen's controversial film 'The Interview'
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Your support makes all the difference.Self-proclaimed messiah Kanye West wants to star in his own feature length film.
The rapper has plans for an “immersive cinema experience” that will “take storytelling to the next level”, according to the latest emails leaked in the Sony hack.
West’s creative assistant Elon Rutberg said an unnamed “multi-screen cinema experience” by the artist was met with a positive response when it debuted at Cannes in 2012, and approached Sony to take it further.
In an email to Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal published on The Daily Beast, Rutberg said: “I supervise all of Kanye’s film and media projects, and we have a major film project coming up that involves both cinematic and technological innovation, so I naturally thought Sony and wanted to reach out.
“We premiered a multi-screen cinema experience to great response at Cannes 2012, and are looking to take the storytelling to the next level with a feature length film, shot for an immersive cinema experience.”
West will also reportedly make a cameo appearance in James Franco and Seth Rogen’s controversial new film The Interview, thought to have been the initial motivation behind the cyber attack on Sony Pictures.
The rapper will apparently appear in a re-enactment from the film BIG where the lead characters play a gigantic floor piano.
A leaked email from the film’s producer James Weaver to Seth Rogen, his filmmaking partner Evan Goldberg and Pascal said: “We’ll have an XMAS tease for 2015. We have a specific idea to attack to THE INTERVIEW that will crush.
“Seth, Joe, and [Anthony] Mackie re-enacting the scene from BIG on the floor piano at FAO Schwartz with KANYE WEST. It’s f*cking awesome.”
North Korea has since denied involvement with the hack in retaliation for Rogen and Franco's film, which paints Kim Jong-Un in a negative night.
The FBI has confirmed it is investigating the cyber attack.
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