Kevin Smith 'Fake Batman v Superman' Script...was Fake.

For the last week or so the interwebs has been running with the rumor that the supposed Batman v Superman shooting script that spawned all the recent casting news and plot points was penned by Kevin Smith. The script has been speculated to be part of a campaign of misdirection on the part of director Zack Snyder and WB to throw bloggers like us off the trail of real news. Well, Smith finally addressed that idea.

From his website:

"ince 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. (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). Fun story, though."

Kevin Smith ‘Fake Batman v Superman’ Script…was Fake.

By Skip Harvey | Jul 8, 2014