Samuel L. Jackson Reveals the Wild Story of How His ‘Avengers’ Script Got Stolen

It turns out, even Nick Fury can't defeat a thief on a mission.

Samuel L. Jackson revealed in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly that someone sneakily got ahold of his Avengers script and tried to make a profit off of it more than a decade ago.

"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," he said. "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."

In a real-life movie twist, Marvel tried to arrange an undercover operation to get the stolen property back. "They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn't show up," Jackson recalled. "It was crazy."

The production dealt with its fair share of pesky spoiler seekers, the Avengers star added, noting that drones would fly overhead trying to capture footage of filming prior to its 2012 premiere.

"They shot one down," Jackson claimed. "And they followed one back to where the dude was. They found him and, yeah, they got him."

Emilia Clarke, who co-stars with Jackson in Secret Invasion, added that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss looked to the superhero franchise for cues on squashing leaks.

"They were like, 'Marvel. We're just learning from Marvel. Whatever Marvel's doing, we just want to do that,'" she said. 

Secret Invasion is currently available to stream on Disney+.