2014 Movie News Archives

July 8, 2014: Kevin Smith Did Not Write a Fake "Batman v Superman" Script

Dawn of Justice A few days ago MovieWeb.com reported that they'd received an email from an inside source who claimed to know that Kevin Smith had been commissioned by Warner Bros. to write a fake "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" script to throw fan sites off the scent of the real story. Today, via his own blog, Kevin Smith reveals that there's no truth to the rumor...

    There've been a few movie websites reporting I might've been involved in a BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE misinformation campaign, at the behest of Warner Brothers, director Zack Snyder and producer Chuck Roven. The idea was that everything I've ever said about the forthcoming big screen team-up of the World's Finest is a carefully constructed web of intrigue to throw movie sites off the real track.

    C'mon, kids... No major studio would let a guy like me near their franchises - even if it was for a dummy script meant solely to fool the news sites. (Don't know if it's true or not, but this Twitter user is claiming credit for a fugazi script that's currently being reviewed online.)

    No, anything I've said about "Milo and Sage" was based on an image Zack showed me while hosting a MAN OF STEEL online event at Yahoo many months back. The little I know of the flick beyond that I learned from some cats involved (though never BatFleck himself; as I've said a few times now on the Babble-On podcast, beyond email, I haven't spoken to Ben in years).

In case you're wondering, "Milo and Sage" is the codename the movie was originally working under. Read the full blog post at SilentBobSpeaks.com.



2014 Movie News

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