May be a whoosh, but that Sarah Michelle Gellar link was big news back when it was announced.
I believe I even read that they had Christopher Lloyd signed to a contract.
Have any actors died or become otherwise unavailable besides the unfortunate Wendie Jo Sperber?
I think you can safely count out Crispin Glover.
Because he’s playing Grendel?
Also disputed by CHUD.com
Does Fox want to actually play Doc Brown or have Marty McFLy be the eccentric scientist?
That’s a Screen Door on a Submarine!
Make like a tree and
don’t get whooshed.
Then you self-whooshed, because HPL quoted the follow-up line reasonably accurately.
Hey, you! Get your damn hands off of him!
I think he took your wallet.
In an interview, MJF made it clear that working on Spin City was difficult for him, and that was well before his symptoms forced him to publicly admit he was ill. I didn’t realize that he had been diagnosed before the show even started, and that he basically knew that if he was ever going to do another show, it had to be right then, before he was no longer able to work.
I’m not sure he could shoot (and carry) an entire film now. It’s disappointing and a loss to the rest of us.
As I never tire of reminding people:
The IMDb has two news pages.
StudioBriefing is put together from legitimate Los-Angeles-based entertainment sources, and is generally reliable.
WENN Celebrity Briefing is a wire service driven by British tabloids, and is composed of rumor, innuendo, and outright fabrication. They get it wrong often enough that IMDb used to have a disclaimer at the bottom of the page: “we have nothing to do with this, we just subscribe, we make no warranty as to accuracy, if you have a problem don’t call us call WENN,” etc. It’s not there now; not sure what happened. But it used to be.
Point is, if it’s on StudioBriefing, it’s legit.
If it’s on WENN, it’s at least partly and perhaps entirely bullshit.
This was on WENN. It’s a deliberate misreading of out-of-context statements done solely to generate a few more minutes of material to dump into the unceasingly ravenous maw of the celebrity-obsessed public. There’ll be another one on Monday, when a story Renee Zellweger tells about having a painful rock in her shoe is distorted into a medical nightmare involving the emergency amputation of her leg above the knee.
Grumble grumble…
I suppose that you regard this penchant for confusing honest folks with the facts as fighting ignorance, hmmmm?
Buy barley futures.