J.J. Abrams is takingStar Wars: Episode IXscript security to another level.
“I still have to go over and do [Episode IX],” Hamill said.
You know how it is these days, every time you sign NDAs.
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He said, ‘It’s really wild, it’s crazy, can I give it to Meredith?’
‘Sure, go ahead.’
It went around to all my friends.
Of course back then nobody cared.
Nowadays it’s like working for some secret deep state government organization, like being in the CIA.
Yet script security measures have even tightened since the last movie.
During filming forThe Last Jedi, Hamill noted he was allowed to keep a paper script.
Not so for theEpisode IX.
you could’t even keep it overnight.
But that’s the way it is now."
“you’re able to’t do that in electronic form, it’s so impersonal.
I’m old school and long for the days of paper scripts.
And I can understand why if [a script] gets out it ruins it for everyone.”
Hamill said he spent about a week onEpisode IXpreviously and will return for more shooting amid hisKnightfallschedule.
