And it's not even Amazing Spider-Man 3.

Source: Deadline

While news of Sony's decision to cancel its release of The Interview dominated much of the media chatter today, another piece of fallout from the recent Sony hacking has hit much closer to the comic industry. Deadline is reporting that New Regency has stopped development on Pyongyang, a Gore Verbinski film based off the graphic novel by Guy Delisle.

Delisle's Pyongyang is an autobiographical comic about Delisle's time in the North Korean capital city. Delisle spent two months in Pyongyang working as a liason between a French animation production company and a North Korean animation studio, and the comic chronicles many of the bizarre behavior and nuances of North Korean culture.

Verbinski's adaptation of the comic was to be a "paranoid thriller" starring Steve Carell and was scheduled to begin production in March. New Regency and its distributor Fox believed there was no sense in moving forward with the film given the recent threats made by a hacker group with sympathies to North Korea.

Delisle is a popular international cartoonist, but I'm sure Pyongyang would have pushed his comics to new audiences, especially here in the US. I hope that he or the publisher of Pyongyang, Drawn & Quarterly, don't face any financial hardship as a result of the decision to not move forward with the film.