Source: Screenrant

The 51-year-old director Kevin Smith has revealed a shocking detail about Marvel Studios. Smith while speaking with FatMan Beyond LIVE revealed that Marvel has secret police that works to protect the important details of its films and television shows from leaking out in public.

Smith said, "I don't think this threatens anything they do or what not, but I thought it was an interesting factoid, coming from inside the world through many sources I can't even tell you but pretty legit, there is a Marvel secret police who, when things are being discovered, not only sweat down the departments, so when leaks happen, not only do the Marvel secret police sweat the departments to find where the leaks sprang from, they also deal in subterfuge. We know this in as much as you'll go to auditions and read lines that have nothing to do with what you're auditioning for. They're well practiced at the art of like 'look over here,' they like to keep their secrets over there."

He continued with an example of their subterfuge, adding: "So they leave leftover call sheets where they draw allusions to characters that are well known that don't exist. So they lay little traps in the call sheets to see if it gets passed on and then try to find the leaks thusly. This is some Watergate level sh-t man. The amount of thought that goes into like 'We gotta keep these secrets,' meanwhile we're living in a world where the most open secret on the planet is there's 96 Spider-Men in the next Spider-Man movie, and everyone's like 'Don't tell the secret,' but we all know it. How fascinating man, the Marvel secret police."

Source: Screenrant

He added, "The trick that we always used to do is change one word per draft that went out. So that way if you wound up with a copy online and that word, almost like a safe word like 'Pineapple,' somewhere in the script where it really doesn't appear in any other script, then you could really track down where the leak sprang from or something like that. Never really had to use it or anything but overly cautious, but let's be honest, nobody gives a fuck about my shit as much as Marvel. Even I would be tempted to be like 'I'm gonna find sh-t out, is this a leftover call sheet."

Source: NME

An American actor, director, and comedian Kevin Smith is mostly known among the mainstream media and audiences for his various films and television shows such as Red State released in 2011, Tusk released in 2014, and Yoga Hosers released in 2016. Smith has directed several films including 1994's Clerks, 1995's Mallrats, 1997's Chasing Amy, 1999's Dogma, 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, 2004's Jersey Girl, 2006's Clerks II, 2008's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, 2010's Cop Out, 2019's Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and 2021's Killroy Was Her.

Kevin Smith will next be seen leading the upcoming comedy film Clerks III as a writer, producer, and director.