So Danny McBride's Crocodile Dundee 4 Is Actually Fake
That's not a movie. THIS is a movie. (Well, not really)
If - like The Guardian's Luke Buckmaster - you were concerned about the prospect of a fourth Crocodile Dundee movie on account of the original being "sexist, racist and homophobic", you'll be delighted to know that it was all a hoax.
And lots of people seem to have fallen for it.
The third Dundee sequel - called Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home and starring Chris Hemsworth and Danny McBride - caused a stir when a teaser trailer appeared without any previous news of the project leaking. It was all very baffling, but given Hollywood's fascination with dredging dead franchises for a hit of nostalgia it wasn't all that surprising - in fact, it was all a little too believable.
But now it turns out that the teaser was no more than a Super Bowl trailer as part of a new Tourism Australia campaign that calls back to a 1984 ad campaign starring Paul Hogan himself...
Since the teaser inspired serious think pieces and generated a lot of leads, you have to hand it to Tourism Australia - they did their job. Though there's no doubt some Hollywood executive will have taken some of the more positive reactions to the campaign as indication that we are indeed ready to see more Crocodile Dundee movies.