Now, Clerks creator — and all-around nerd — Kevin Smith has hilariously spoken out about the Marvel “secret police” who monitor leaks and spoilers. On his FatMan Beyond LIVE, 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,” Smith said. “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.”
“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.”
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