Samuel L. Jackson says Marvel arranged a fake buy to retrieve stolen Avengers script

Samuel L. Jackson says Marvel went through some pretty epic lengths to retrieve his stolen Avengers script.

"I remember when we got ready to do Avengers, someone printed out a copy of my Avengers script that had my watermark on it, and put it online for sale," Jackson told Entertainment Weekly. "I was shooting in Canada and Marvel came to Canada. It had been printed in the production office… They found out who it was, dude quit, left the country. They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn't show up. It was crazy."

The heist took place back in 2011, with Marvel allegedly going as far as to pause production and rewrite the scene that the thief leaked online. Per Slash Film, the leaked scene in question involved the Hulk transforming in front of Black Widow as Iron Man and Captain America are searching a boiler room.

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