What a whirlwind story of oddness this has turned out to be.
It was reported over the weekend that the leaked script for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – that many movie “scoop” sites have been using for their “scoops” – was in fact a fake leaked purposefully by Warner Bros. to throw the Internet off track. Through the course of that, Clerks writer and director Kevin Smith was named as the man hired by Zack Snyder to write this “fake script”.
Then, Smith said he would address the situation. And he did. By denying it.
On his blog Silent Bob Speaks, Smith wrote:
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.
Since last year at this time, I’ve been enjoying an unexpected period of prolificacy with screenplays. It all started with CLERKS III and was followed by me finishing nearly 5 scripts in a year, including the fall release TUSK. After TUSK, I penned ANTI-CLAUS (formerly COMES THE KRAMPUS) and a sitcom pilot that’s now seeing some action (both co-written with Professor Andy McElfresh from the EDUMACATION podcast). Then I wrote YOGA HOSERS and now I’m in the middle of MOOSE JAWS.
However, none of those has been a fake BATS v SUPES script. 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.
UPDATE: As it turns out, the fake script has been written by Twitter user SonOfArrogance, who’s left Latino-Review in particular with egg on their face after using the screenplay as the source of their recent Batman v Superman “scoops”. Which have since been conveniently deleted.
Click here to read Luke Owen’s breakdown and review of the fake Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice script.
Originally published July 8, 2014. Updated January 18, 2020.
