Dan Pražák The latest installment in the worldwide popular Star Wars saga hit theaters in mid-December. Less than a month after the premiere, a very interesting piece of information appeared on the website about how the script was secured in order to prevent its unplanned leak onto the website or those who had nothing to do with it. Director and screenwriter Rian Johnson used an old MacBook Air to write the script for the last part, which cannot be connected to the Internet and thus could not be stolen.
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David Hanak It has happened many times in history that the script for an upcoming film has somehow been leaked to the web (or otherwise to the public). If this happened early, key scenes had to be reshot more than once. If this happens a few weeks before the premiere, there is usually not much that can be done about it. And that's exactly what Rian Johnson wanted to avoid.
When I was writing the script for Episode VIII, I was using a completely isolated MacBook Air with no internet connection. I carried it with me all the time and didn't do anything else on it except write the script. The producers were very concerned about me not leaving him somewhere, for example in a cafe. In the film studio, the MacBook was locked in a safe.
During the filming, Johnson wanted to document a lot of things with the help of photographs as well. In this case too, he reached for an offline solution, as all photography in the studios took place on a classic Leica M6 camera with 35mm film. During the filming, he took several thousand pictures, which did not have the opportunity to leak onto the Internet. These images from the shoot often increase in value over time and usually appear as part of various special editions etc.
It is more of an interest, which, however, helps to look under the hood of how similar works are created and how their main authors behave, or what all they have to go through in order to prevent unwanted and unplanned leakage of information. Dealing with things "offline" is usually the safest way to go if you're worried about an outside attack. You must not forget this offline medium anywhere...
Source: 9to5mac
... This is not the last part of the saga.. but the penultimate one.
@disqus_lvu7eDtmob:disqus i think the authors mean "last released"
Too bad the script is worth nothing, I regret going to the cinema.
Jojo, even if it leaked, nothing would happen. Waste of money for a ticket. :(