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April Fools Shenanigans Spread Across the Web

by Alex Billington
April 1, 2008

For whatever reason, I'm not up for playing the April Fools Day game and writing up a tricky / funny post just for the fun of it. Doesn't mean I don't like to have fun, but I'm just not all about trying to fool people with fake news. Instead, I thought I'd wrangle up all the good April Fools news articles around the web that I can find and send them your way. The least we can do is all get a kick out of the good stuff that the others have come up with! That photo above comes courtesy of Peter over at SlashFilm, who made that to represent the latest casting news - Jake Gyllenhaal will take over for Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man in the fourth film!

I'll update this as the day goes on, but here are all the good movie related April Fools posts I can find:

Google - Introducing Gmail Custom Time - Be on time. Every time. (Because we all use Gmail!)

SlashFilm - Superman vs. Spider-Man Film Announced

JoBlo - Jake Gyllenhaal will be replacing Tobey Maguire in the next Spider-Man movie

IESB - X-Files 2 Gets a Title - X-Files: Full Moon Rising

Rope of Silicon - POSTER: 'Art House Movie: There Will Be Farts'

Cinematical - BREAKING: Christian Bale and Brandon Routh Sign for 'Justice League!!!'

Bloody Disgusting - Steven Spielberg to Remake 'Duel' and Possibly 'Jaws'?!

Bloody Disgusting - Tyler Perry Moves on From Comedy to... Horror?!

ComicBookMovie.com - CAMEO: Wolverine to Make Appearance in Incredible Hulk Movie!

ComicBookMovie.com - Sea-Monkeys Movie Coming to the Big Screen

ScreenRant - Iron Man To Get Staggered, Late April Release Dates

Moviehole.net - Colin Farrell in Once remake

Moviehole.net - Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo!

IGN - Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer Premiere

The Movie Blog - Transformers 2 Bot Lineup Announced

FilmDrunk - Wolfman: Del Toro Out, Busey In

Giant Freakin Robot - Cloverfield Monster In Transformers 2!

I always love to think to myself, man, what kind of world would this be if some of these were actually true?! Superman vs Spider-Man, that sounds awesome, or a Once remake, or a Spielberg remake of Jaws!! Who doesn't love April Fools Day?

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nha

This one's a goodie - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw
Ian Kazimer

Cloverfield + Transformers = Hilarious.
Spider

Nice work Alex! Very funny stuff. Here's another funny one left off your list(courtesy of Moviehole): http://www.moviehole.net/news/20080401_american_pie_star_the_new_spid.html
James

http://movies.ign.com/articles/863/863492p1.html joke right?
JNYCE

zelda looks like trash lol
JNYCE

even for a joke, ganondorf looks like blanka from the street fighter movie
harrison

haha the gmail ones good, and the tyler perry one, even funnier what he does is classified as comedy though james, i hope to god thats a joke, im all for a legend of zelda movie but that looks terrible(special effects wise anyway)
Reverend

"Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality." Of course they do. Does this also allow you to send emails ... Back to the Future? "*The term "Every time" is used loosely here to represent the number 10." I thought 'every time' always meant ten.
http://movieguyreviews4u.blogspot.com Ryan

Nice job.
http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington

Updated the list with a few more added at the bottom (and one removed). Apparently one was a rumor - wooops!
Young

Thanx Alex! haha, good one Google. I fell for it!! the "back in time" shenanigans should have tipped me off, but I admit...the idea of placing an email when I SHOULD have, was pretty tempting. Maybe next year they can come out with one that undoes emails that you should NOT have sent: aka drunk tirades, mushy stuff to ex's and such, reccomending a crappy movie!....c'mon, you know you'd like that too!!
Curtis

some of those would be pretty damn awesome and some would be terrible, oh ya was that Jake Gyllenhaal thing about him filling in for Tobey true for spider-man?
M.

"Doesn't mean I don't like to have fun, but I'm just not all about trying to fool people with fake news." I really appreciate it when someone takes the time to tell me what they're just not all about. This is because I'm just not all about knowing anything worth knowing about a person. I'm more into people's statements of Persona.
Icarus

Ok, the Zelda trailer was amazing. Come on, of course Ganondorf looked like Blanka. What did you want them to do, hire ILM for their joke trailer? I thought it was pretty damn well done. So kudos to the IGN team behind it. And yes, I fell for the Gmail one too. I'm not exactly the most responsible person alive, and I fell for it head over heels. Gotta love this day.
http://www.firstshowing.net Alex Billington

Actually, that Zelda trailer isn't half bad. But it seems sooo cheesy and so "IGN-like". If they do really make one, it's got to Lord of the Rings epic or it's going to suck... And no one wants to see such a prolific gaming franchise like Zelda get disgraced in that way!
harrison

imdb has a listing for Zelda due in 2009 but maybe that page was created to go along with the joke?