It’s widely known that studios are highly protective of scripts, especially for films they are ploughing $150+ million into. Ian McKellen recently revealed that when he got his script for The Hobbit someone came round to his house and took it away to be shredded, and it seems Marvel has a similar paranoia regarding it’s scripts, as Natalie Portman revealed to Parade:
“I think everyone has gotten more secretive just because of the preponderance of technology that can scam just about anything. It’s like you don’t get a script anymore that doesn’t have watermarks that would identify you if you ever tried to leak anything. The Thor script is hard to read because it’s on some weird colored paper and they have your name in huge letters across every page. And any time you get a phone call from Marvel, it doesn’t come up as a normal number, it’s like a five digit code. I’ve never seen that before. I’ve had phone calls from people in the government and they don’t have that. Marvel’s like some like crazy underground world.”
I can imagine in a few years time actors will be getting self destructing scripts. They will have one hour to read it and then it will explode in front of their eyes. That’ll stop script leaks!
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