Hollywood is one of those strange places where facts could be false and rumors may well be the truth. You read and decide for yourself.
Rumor: Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker is said to be in talks with ABC to appear as a guest in at least two episodes of “Lost” when it returns for its next season.
Fact: Something that isn’t rumor is the news that Fox’s “Prison Break” star Peter Stormare is joining the cast of “Lost.” That piece of news has been verified.
Rumor: USA Today as much as proclaimed Zachary Quinto the new Spock for the J.J. Abrams new look at Star Trek. The next film in the franchise is starting to spark lots of speculation from the press as we draw closer to casting announcements at this weekend’s Comic Con.
Fact: ABC announced the times for two of their new shows. “Cavemen” will begin airing on Tuesday October 2nd at 8PM ET and the highly anticipated SF show “Pushing Daisies” will premiere on Wednesday, October 3 at 8PM ET. “Daisies” is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, who will also exec. produce and tells the story of a man who can touch the dead and bring them back to life. Think “Joan of Arcadia” meets “Wonderfalls” with a Messiah complex, but, with Sonnenfeld showrunning it ought to prove interesting.
Rumor: Rumor has it that “SWAT 4 – Ver. 1.1” and “World of Warcraft” are spying on PC gamers. Who, or what, is the intruder? In-game advertisers. According to GameSpot, “strings of programming code deciphered also reveal that someone, somewhere, gets info on how long a gamer puts his reticule on specific ads. And over in Azeroth, WoW gamers have been complaining about privacy issues. The online role-player grabs information about hardware specs, IP addresses, and operating systems that gamers have “in order to assist Blizzard Entertainment to police users who may use ‘hacks,’ or ‘cheats,'” according to the game’s Terms of Use contract.”
Fact: “ReBoot,” one of the earliest computer-animated episodic TV series, will be redeveloped as a trilogy of feature-length films by Rainmaker Animation. Originally produced in 1994, the series centered on life within a computer, where good forces fought invading viruses and videogames were viewed from within.
Rumor: And finally, there is a story floating around the dingy halls of gossip-ville that Jackie Earl Haley (“Little Children”) has landed the role of Rorschach in the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen.” In the graphic novel Rorschach is an ink-blot masked vigilante of justice who has alienated himself from everyone else who is fighting crime.
I have had Zero interest in watching Lost I must confess, but that Forest Whitaker rumor made my head whip around and reconsider. If he shows up it will be enough for me to go put Lost on my Netflix.