by The star of Captain America 4 disclosed the stringent security requirements he must follow for his upcoming MCU film.
Many people will go to great measures to provide spoilers for a new MCU project when it is launched. Either fans will seek out every bit of information from the time a show is in development to the time it premieres, or fans will go to great lengths to avoid learning anything, with some even skipping trailers to prevent spoilers.
Marvel Studios has implemented certain preventative measures against internal leaks since individuals in the first category frequently divulge significant plot twists or story beats far in advance of a project’s debut.
Some of these precautions include limiting the number of screenings and not disclosing the titles of the films to the audience. Marvel is not flawless, and leaks do occur; in fact, COVID-19 appears to have had an impact on the incidence of leaks in recent years.
Exactly how does Marvel stop leaks?
Anthony Mackie (Sam Wilson) discussed the precautions Marvel takes to stop internal screenplay leaks for its productions, notably Captain America 4, in an interview with Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
In his opening statement, Mackie stated that he had just received the script for his next Captain America: New World Order film, but that he had not yet “read it … opened it … [or] gotten [his] passcode to the website that lets you get to the website:“
Clarkson: “So I can’t let you be here without asking you like one question, okay? So can you tell us anything about the new Captain America?”
Mackie: “Ironically enough, I got my script today.”
Clarkson: “This is a sign.”
Mackie: “Like, today. I literally, I’ll show you the email. I got my script today. Haven’t read it. Haven’t opened it. I haven’t got my passcode to the website that let’s you get to the website.”
On that last point, Mackie went into further detail. He described the lengthy, multi-step procedure he would have to follow to obtain the script, including how he would “literally get a passcode to a website that gives us a location to meet the person to sign, to sit with a computer, and read our script:”
Mackie: “We literally get a passcode to a website that gives us a location to meet the person to sign, to sit with a computer, and read our script.”
Clarkson: “Wow. They don’t trust y’all.”
Mackie: “They don’t trust nobody. And it’s always like some 21-year-old intern and he just hates you. You know, he’s sitting there eating Cheetos and he’s like, ‘Read faster,’ you know? And I’m like, ‘I’m dyslexic.’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t care.’ Like it’s, oh, it’s a whole thing.”
The Multiple-Step Script Access Procedure for Captain America 4
One can only guess how much effort is put into keeping other areas of production under wraps based on what Mackie detailed in this interview, which was only the safeguards required for seeing MCU scripts for the first time.
How, for instance, do performers memorise the script’s lines? How are they able to memorise what they need to say if they can only read it for the first time in a private location on a different computer?
Fans are aware from Avengers: Infinity War publicity that Tom Holland and other actors received phoney screenplays, and that the majority of the cast mistook Tony Stark‘s burial in Avengers: Endgame for a wedding. This suggests that a distinct, physical script is also distributed, but when does that take place?
Fans won’t be able to see what Mackie is apparently reading until Captain America: New World Order opens in theatres on May 3, 2024, in either case.
