{"id":603,"date":"2010-07-22T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/22\/that-round-headed-kid-ding\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:22:00","slug":"that-round-headed-kid-ding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/22\/that-round-headed-kid-ding\/","title":{"rendered":"That Round-Headed Kid-ding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie industry is a harsh mistress, all boom and bust. When a big production comes to town, there’s plenty of work (and overtime) to go around – but the lean times can be very lean indeed for Mr E Man and his fellow spaceship builders,<\/a> and there’s always the fear that shiny new tax breaks in Toronto or Australia or elsewhere will lure the big money away.<\/p>\n

This uncertain environment is a fertile breeding ground for speculation and rumours of The Next Big One. Mr E Man often reports back from the studio with tales of the film he might<\/i> be working on next, some of the tales plausible, but others more on the “what on Earth will Hollywood think of next?! Who watches this shit?” spectrum.<\/p>\n

So, yesterday, Mr E Man decided to start his own rumour. He made it as preposterous as he could, but apparently he has several people believing that after the current show, the whole crew will be moving on to a big budget, live-action remake of…<\/p>\n

A Charlie Brown Christmas.<\/p>\n

With George Clooney as Charlie Brown.<\/p>\n

And Angelina Jolie as Lucy.<\/p>\n

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Image source. <\/a>All the other Peanuts images were copyrighted.<\/i><\/div>\n

Mr E Man has given me permission to blog this story, in the hopes that my readers can come up with even more preposterous rumours for him to spread once this one dies down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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