The fallout from the recent hack attack against SONY continues. At first it was believed that it was merely a case of some of SONY's forthcoming films being released onto the internet by 'pirates'. However the raft of personal details of salaries, opinions strategies have revealed just how extensive the attack was - and continues to be.
The latest development has 007 producers confirming what had been rumoured over the last few days - that the script for Spectre was stolen in the attack and has now been sent to a variety of outlets along with annotations and opinions about the screenplay. It appears that there were major concerns from SONY executives, at least at some point in the process over the last few months, regarding the third act of the film was weak and too complicated... and that the rewrites may have been ongoing.
The formal statement reads:
EON PRODUCTIONS, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.
Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents. The screenplay for SPECTRE is the confidential information of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq, LLC, and is protected by the laws of copyright in the United Kingdom and around the world. It may not (in whole or in part) be published, reproduced, disseminated or otherwise utilised by anyone who obtains a copy of it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.
- - -
For the record, Impact and MAI Publications would in no way seek to reprint stolen property, however we will, to the best of our ability, report any news stories relating to such information already being in the public arena.
.jpg)
