Re: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
https://badassdigest.com/2014/07/05/kevin-smith-may-have-written-a-fake-batman-v-superman-script/
There was a thing that the Joss Whedon camp used to reveal on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (or so I heard) called foilers - fake spoilers that would hit the fan forums and divert people from figuring out the true events of specific episodes. It's the nerdy version of disinformation, a spy tool. And it may have happened with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*. On Thursday I told you about a script for the film I had received, and detailed some of the elements from this script. Now Movieweb is reporting that a source tells them this script - which has been heavily circulated - is actually fake.
According to the site Warner Bros hired Kevin Smith to write a fake script. According to their source:
Early this year a Screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which 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.
True? False? Somebody making up a story? Warner Bros doing damage control to discredit a true script that leaked? We're through the looking glass here, man!
While I suspected that this script was fake from the minute I read it, I have to say I would not have pegged it as a Kevin Smith script. Not that Smith is a great writer, but the dialogue in this script is leaden. The script is 152 pages, and I just imagine how sad it must have been to write this fairly well-structured, fan-servicing script that will only ever exist to 'fool' people like me. That's a lot of work. And I wonder what Kevin Smith's quote is for writing fake scripts.
I'm still unsure what the truth about this script is, and until I'm certain one way or another I'll be keeping the spoiler details to myself. Despite what that MovieWeb scooper says, not many sites are actively looking to spoil movies.
* the actual title.
SOURCE: MOVIEWEB
