James Bond Producers Release Statement As SPECTRE Script Is Stolen In Sony Hacking Scandal

The script for the latest James Bond film SPECTRE has been stolen as part of the Sony hacks fiasco. Rest assured that Movies In Focus won’t publish any of the sordid details. Speculation is fun, ruining movies is something else. Eon productions has published a statement on the official James Bond website – it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this.

Here’s what is says:

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.

SPECTRE opens in 2015.