This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home.
These days, you’d lose a metaphorical hand to a studio’s red lightsaber if you dished details on any major upcoming plot twists. Media training for interviews, fake scripts, and so much green screen that the actors couldn’t even really tell you what was happening on set if they tried are all extremely commonplace behind the scenes of the big franchises, so that invested audiences get to experience that collective shock when Cap wields Mjolnir, or J. Jonah Jameson live-streams the doxxing of Peter Parker. Witnessing those moments without the internet ruining them first is a regular gauntlet, as you may be aware.
Back in 1979, when Irvin Kershner was making his highly anticipated follow up to George Lucas’ Star Wars, the interminable chore of keeping movie secrets away from prying...
These days, you’d lose a metaphorical hand to a studio’s red lightsaber if you dished details on any major upcoming plot twists. Media training for interviews, fake scripts, and so much green screen that the actors couldn’t even really tell you what was happening on set if they tried are all extremely commonplace behind the scenes of the big franchises, so that invested audiences get to experience that collective shock when Cap wields Mjolnir, or J. Jonah Jameson live-streams the doxxing of Peter Parker. Witnessing those moments without the internet ruining them first is a regular gauntlet, as you may be aware.
Back in 1979, when Irvin Kershner was making his highly anticipated follow up to George Lucas’ Star Wars, the interminable chore of keeping movie secrets away from prying...
- 4/21/2021
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
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