See Seth Rogen and James Franco's Bawdy North Korean Adventure in the Trailer for 'The Interview'

So Seth Rogen and James Franco decide to make a little movie about a plot to assassinate the dictator of North Korea. What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out, just about everything — even off-screen. To witness the on-screen hijinks, check out the official trailer (above) for the comedy The Interview, which debuts exclusively here on Yahoo Movies.

The pair play a couple of shallow, high-living entertainment journalists. The trailer’s opening scene features what is sure to be one of most-talked-about scenes of the year, as Rob Lowe (playing himself), opens an on-air conversation with Franco’s interviewer by removing a full headpiece toupee — and revealing a grisly dome of flesh with the merest tendrils clinging beneath.

In the film, Franco and his producer Rogen receive an invitation to travel to North Korea and interview Kim Jong Un (the youthful despot does not play himself in the film). As their road-trip plans develop, the CIA jumps aboard (in the person of agent Lizzie Caplan), drafting the pair into an assassination plot.

All in good fun!  But the rollout to the film has been anything but, in the eyes of the North Korean government, which has declared it an “act of war” and implored the United Nations to block the film’s release.

Despite the fuss (and without Rob Lowe’s hairpiece), The Interview will open nationwide on December 25.