Now THAT’s a Stretch! Kristen Stewart not Slated for “Armstrong” Movie
10:49 am, February 16th, 2010
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Here’s how a crazy rumor starts.
Yesterday a fake news site called The Spoof ran a story called, “Kristen Stewart Gets Green Light From Rob Pattinson Over New Movie Project.” It’s all about her Twilight co-star advising her to take a role… in Stretch Armstrong.
“Kristen Stewart has proved beyond all doubt that there is life after the Twilight franchise as she entered into discussions to play the leading role in a proposed new movie based around 1970s kids’ action figure ‘Stretch Armstrong’,” the site jokes.
Jokes.
Because The Spoof is a satire site. The news is fake. You can question just how funny its content is (or isn’t), but anyone who spends seven seconds looking at it will realize it is not an actual news source.
Entertainment & Showbiz didn’t make it to the seven-second mark.
You may recall that’s the same site that once featured a baffling (and completely wrong) story about Robert Pattinson being handcuffed by police in New York for reasons too confusing to revisit.
Today it posts a story called, “Kristen Stewart moves on with Rob Pattinson’s approval.”
(Do you see where this is going?)
“Kristen is offered the role in a movie based on the 1970s kids’ action hero Stretch Armstrong,” the site claims. “She has been advised by [Pattinson] to move beyond the Twilight series…”
Yep, Entertainment & Showbiz picked up a story created by a place called THE SPOOF — and repeated it as real.
The problem, of course, is that other sites — including several fan sites — see the surprising story on Entertainment & Showbiz (which purports to be an entertainment news site), and assume, rightfully, that it’s intended as news.
It is not news. It is fake.
Kristen Stewart is not slated to be in Stretch Armstrong.
There is a major Twilight connection, of course. Taylor Lautner has signed on to play the title role.
But let’s not let lousy, facts-challenged, cut-and-paste outlets stretch the truth further.
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