This is the internet, and you can’t keep a good leak plugged. That hasn’t stopped Marvel Studios trying for Avengers: Doomsday, though.
We are a lot way from the heyday, or some may say wild west, period of the internet movie community where people would be banned from Skywalker Ranch for infractions, but simply didn’t care.
Back in those glory days, fans would gather online in vast numbers to breathlessly dissect a single grainy photo snapped from distance on a location shoot.
Webmasters would claim to have been ushered into hotel rooms to watch bootleg versions of upcoming big releases. Fake Oscar lists would destroy credibility in a single post.
It was wild. The kids today won’t believe us when we tell them.
Today, it’s very different. Studios control outlets with an iron fist through a combination of controlled access and NDAs. Sites become shills by default.
The last free men of the movie internet gather in Reddit threads and, well, here. Studios then find themselves playing digital whack-a-mole as leaks pop up.
In these days of AI, it is increasingly difficult to tell real leaks from fan fantasy and mischief. What usually gives it away is the studio reaction, like with the latest leaks from Avengers: Doomsday.
Following the circulation of the world’s most pixelated video last week, one that appeared to show a large scale battle from the movie, Disney and Marvel movies at speed to nix it and have it removed from the internet.
Now, courtesy of the same Reddit threads, a number of images ostensibly from that scene have started to circulate online. Are they real? Well, the speed at which they are seemingly being removed would point to a “yes”, but we don’t 100% know.
We don’t have any access to take away, so here they are!
X-Men, Sentinels, interesting hair choices, oh my!
Anyway, who knows how long these will stay up. In the meantime, we have instructed Kenneth in our legal department to stay by the phone in case he’s needed. Everybody, say “Hi” to Kenneth.
Good boy, Kenneth.
