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Film After spending a day being told how important it is to check the facts of a story and keep away from idle gossip I look at this and weep. On April 1st, Jo-Blo, the movie site, published a joke article about Kate Beckinsale being considered for the title role in Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman film. They say that it's an April Fool in the closing paragraph. But then other sites across the web began posting the story as fact. I spotted it at Digital Spy (who to be fare have used words like 'reported') but a glance at the Google News search reveals that this has become really wide spread. As someone at this Whedonesque discussion suggests, this is the kind of thing which leads to someone being cast in a role just because its expected.