How concerned is Marvel about leaks from the upcoming Avengers movie? Spoilers (or anti-spoilers, maybe?) under the jump give you an idea of what the answer is.
Director Rian Johnson just revealed this via Twitter:
Chris Wells was our FX supervisor at Hydraulx, he’s a great guy and has done fantastic work on Looper. He did an interview recently that made the rounds where he talked about his work on Avengers, and let it slip that skull-head-guy isn’t a villain in the movie. I heard yesterday that Marvel had him fired for it. I understand it was a mistake on his part, but c’mon, that one bit of info is worth a guy losing his job?
It’s one thing to be upset at someone for revealing a surprise appearance of a previously-unannounced character in a movie, but firing someone for revealing that a previously-unannounced character isn’t in a movie…? That’s beyond paranoid, surely?
(It also makes me wonder how much of the rumoring about the movie is manufactured by Marvel sources, if they fire someone for saying that one of those rumors isn’t true, but that’s more than likely my own paranoia, and ultimately neither here nor there.)
February 17th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Has this been confirmed or corroborated in any way?
February 17th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Marvel could be going into defcon mode especially after yesterday’s expose uncovered a security leak on their comic side.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I would like to announce that, this being a Joss Whedon film, everyone he ever worked with except Sarah Michelle Gellar and Joel Grey will be playing an Avenger. Look for Tom Lenk and Fran Kranz as Wonder Man and the Beast, and Nathan Fillion as Dane Whitman.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
If you work on a film like this, you sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. If you disclose things, you break that agreement. Breaking a contracted agreement, regardless of what it is, is a fireable offense. Just sayin’.
February 17th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Alex is right. As a graphic designer, I work with non-disclosure agreements all the time. The point isn’t what was said, but that he said anything at all. Some NDAs require that you don’t even mention who you’ve worked for or what you’ve worked on until months or years afterward, regardless of whether you want to say something nice about the client or the product. It can suck for self-promotion or putting something in your portfolio, but it’s the nature of the business.
The real news here is that some FX guy, who was probably very good at his job, made a bonehead mistake and now lost work for it. It sucks, and the guy should have known better, but it happens.
Marvel is doing what any company in their position would have and should have done.
February 18th, 2012 at 12:12 am
A bit ironic though, considering Marvel spoils major plot points from their own comics via solicitations and press releases all the time!
February 18th, 2012 at 7:23 am
So, Red Skull is in Avengers?
February 19th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
forgive grasme he doesn’t actually know how ANYthing in the TV film or com,ic book industry works…. and almost all his headline are in the form of questionsor comments that he really just tweaks to get responses….
February 19th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
The First Rule of a Macmillian blog post is take it with a grain of salt.