Deadline.com Fails the April Fools' Test
Today, The Guardian has clearly admitted their mistake. After picking up an April Fools’ joke item posted by Worst Previews that claimed James Cameron wanted to do a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, the newspaper has amended the item sub-headline:
History may be set to repeat itself if Cameron signs on for the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s latest return to the Alien universe • … but in fact it’s unlikely to as we discovered this story was an April Fool’s joke on the part of the original source on 3 April.
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