Kevin Smith has been known in Hollywood circles as a geek. His status as a geek has been the subject of jealousy for diehard fans, considering that he has been privy to many details about iconic geek properties like the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII" movie and the highly-anticipated "Batman vs Superman" movie, thanks to his friendship with star Ben Affleck.
On the other hand, Smith made news, at least in the geek world, when it was rumored that he was officially hired by the producers of the latest Man of Steel-Dark Knight film mashup as a smoke screen for the new Warner Bros film, MovieWeb reported. Citing a pdf file obtained by Badass Digest, it has been believed that the actor/director had written what initially appeared to be a legitimate movie screenplay for the "Dawn of Justice" movie.
The blog said Smith had purposefully leaked the now fake script just to throw people off to what director Zack Snyder is working on. Shortly after the fake script was leaked, many fanboys believed that the file was authentic, considering the backstory written on a letter attached to it.
An excerpt of the letter reads: "Late last year both Charles Roven and Zack Snyder approached Kevin Smith with an 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."
However, Smith, after much buildup, has officially renounced the claims on his Twitter feed, CinemaBlend reported. Smith initially wrote, "No, I didn't write a fake Batman v Superman script. But I HAVE kept busy regardless... Thanks for saying #WalrusYes !"
The link attached to the tweet is directed to a more detailed explanation that debunked the screenplay rumor. Smith said, "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.)"
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