If true, the following is possibly one of the greatest stunts ever pulled by a movie studio.Movieweb received a tip from an anonymous source...
If true, the following is possibly one of the greatest stunts ever pulled by a movie studio.Movieweb received a tip from an anonymous source working on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which claims that Kevin Smith has penned a fake script and that it was leaked to misdirect fans and sites.
The letter reads as follows
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This isn't a scoop regarding the plot or the details of the Batman v Superman movie or am I writing you in order to spoil or disappoint the general public.
My insider info regards a who has been the source of the vast majority of leaked information as regards to the movie and more importantly why.
Up until last year I worked for as a PA for a Warner Bros. exec until I was promoted to marketing. It was here I and several others where approached to work, directly and indirectly, for Susanne Knoll and sometimes Deborah Snyder.
It was here that I became a part of a particular strategy that Warner Bros has been using to great effect.
Early this year a Screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justicewhich was commissioned by Warner Bros was leaked to several gossip sites. It was a scanned PDF of the entire screenplay baring a official Warner Bros watermark.
This script has been the source of almost every leaked detail about the movie for the last six months. It has been posted on sites then quickly removed due to cease and desist letters from Warner Bros.
While the screenplay is legit and the watermark is legit and it is was commissioned by Charles Roven himself...
But it is written by neither David S. Goyer or Chris Terrio.
It was written by Kevin Smith.
Late last year both Charles Roven and Zack Snyder approached Kevin Smith with a early treatment for the film and It was Kevin Smith who came up with the idea to write an entire screenplay based on it but with several huge red herrings and changes which do not appear in the final film. These include plot points and characters etc etc. and 'leak' it online.
This script was distributed by myself and others to gossip sites and movie sites like aintitcool, latino review, movie pilot, etc etc
My job was to pose as a worker at Warner Bros who was leaking the screenplay.
There were several others involved who posed as recently fired members of the production, interns and special effects artists and we all spread the misleading info around the web.
None of this was done maliciously and was a strategy to misdirect much of sites that intended to spoil the film.
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It’s crazy enough to be true. For the record, we haven’t received the aforementioned script, but we’ve got mails about the various rumours. To be fair, it’s a rather fantastic move by Warner Bros. if it’s true. For years and years various websites have ruined movies with different leaks. Here, at The Movie Bit, I’m still very torn about posting such content. While I don’t want to censor material that comes our way, I’m still, like you, a movie fan. I don’t want a movie spoiled for me, and I’m sure you don’t either. So we are very selective on putting things like this online. Again, if true, it’s impressive that a movie studio would go to such lengths to keep a movie secret and of course Kevin Smith needs a major tip of the hat too.
On a side note, if you’ve read this far, what do you think about such leaks. Do leaks ruin a movie for you? Do you gain anything by it? Or do you even care? Please drop a comment below and let us know what you think.
