I don’t buy into this story. It has threads of plausibility, but I’m highly skeptical that all of this is true. There would have been multiple backups in multiple media formats, and works in progress would be saved to hundreds of different machines and backups. It may have been a pain in the ass to recover, but there was no way they lost everything from one command - as the result clearly shows.
Not in 1998.
***I don’t buy into this story. It has threads of plausibility, but I’m highly skeptical that all of this is true.***
Agreed! It would be almost impossible to believe that *any* major film studio would develop a multi-million dollar project, having only one copy without continuous, multiple off-site backups.
They know darn well who did the deed. It was the boss, thus the cover-up.
Also, this is what happens when you hire based on things other than experience and aptitude. So many violations of common sense.