Oh crap... Did the Uncharted film's writer nearly lose the script?

As of this week we have an Uncharted movie script from writer Joe Carnahan who posted the front page on Instagram, calling it a "beast."

Done and Dusted. Now the REAL work begins. If there's a more monstrously cool action script in Hollywood right now, I wanna read it, 'cuz this thing is a BEAST.
A photo posted by @carnojoe on Jan 7, 2017 at 1:28pm PST

However, there was already clearly one adventure behind him if you check his twitter account. Specifically these few posts that appear just before the reveal of the finished script...

Guys, who knows Final Draft. I just had an entire file dump out on me and now it's saying ZERO BITES and refuses to open it. Am I fucked!?January 7, 2017

Final Draft is a piece of screenwriting software by the way. You know the sort of thing you use to write scripts.

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it's telling me it's not compatible with this version of final draft. if it's gone, I just lost ten pages of brand new work. https://t.co/mb6MbE2cjxJanuary 7, 2017

Ten pages sounds like a lot...

The back-up is showing ZERO BYTES. I don't know how that's possible. https://t.co/Nockv9QMcDJanuary 7, 2017

Asking for help was having mixed results...

Programs? https://t.co/fNypA1dMV6January 7, 2017

This... could be going better.

Wait. I think it's okay...

GOT IT BACK!!! Holy Mother Of God, I was about to shit an entire litter of kittens.THANK YOU GUYS!!!January 7, 2017

And then, later that day, Joe tweeted out a link to his instagram post announcing the finished script:

Done and Dusted.Now the REAL work begins.If there's a more monstrously cool action script in… https://t.co/uVo3DLkrFzJanuary 7, 2017

So, 'phew' basically. Remember guys, always save your work regularly.

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