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See also "Canary Traps"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap

Apparently this is common practice in the movie industry - cast members are given slightly different versions of the script so that any leaks can be traced back to a unique individual.

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If you think that one through it seems like doing this for a movie would be a logistical nightmare. Most actors are pretty good about learning their lines, which means you’d couldn’t just put random changes in because otherwise their time would be wasted. I’m guessing that it’s only used for pivotal plot changes like the Roddenberry incident describe on Wikipedia. Seems like the path used these days is extreme lawsuit threats built into their contract, something you’ll see just about every Marvel star joke about during interviews.

When giving an actor a script that deviates from the proper script, you can choose to only allow deviations in the portions of the script that don't directly involve that actor.

There is more in a script then just this actors lines. You could slightly change Lines of other characters in the scenes or you could change the descriptions of the scenes in slight ways. You would still give the correct lines to each actor and make it obvious who shared their script.

… Which I hope was trying, apparently without success, to get across. It just seems like a ton of work and maintenance.

I wonder if it is automated with a thesaurus or some NLP

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