Kristen Stewart is not slated for Armstrong movie.

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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