IS IT REAL OR FAKE?! Well, here’s what I know so far - The official InvaderCon Twitter posted this earlier today, and in all the time I’ve been following them I’ve never seen them post fake news. Jhonen himself made an April fools joke about this and said it was fake not too long ago, but then three days later this happened. I know this has been joked about so many times before, which is why I would NEVER advertise it unless a group like InvaderCon posted about it.
Here’s a screenshot of the InvaderCon Tweet I got:
I still wasn’t totally convinced though so I decided to check out some of the official actor’s Twitters too. Here’s Richard Horvitz (official voice of Zim):
But then of course when I get to Jhonen Vasquez he does his normal thing and denies everything. Jhonen is known for doing that, and for being a huge troll though, so it’s really hard to say if he’s ACTUALLY discrediting it, or if he’s just doing his usual thing. Here’s what he posted.
I found this article which has some good info on why this might actually be real, and about how Jhonen is actually required to deny the existance of the movie until told he can do otherwise: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/nickelodeon-making-invader-zim-movie-144753.html
In addition to InvaderCon and Richard Horvitz himself, I’ve seen a lot of big name groups re-tweeting this news and writing about it, such as IGN, Emerald City Comic Con, Entertainment Weekly,
Rose City Comic Con and ComicBookNow. It seems to be that everyone BUT Jhonen himself is confirming it, which gives credit to that article about how he’s required to say it’s fake because of Nickelodeon.
I found a video confirmation by the Nerdist: http://nerdist.com/invader-zim-returns-sequel/
BUT I SAVED THE BEST PART FOR LAST - IGN’s Teaser Video for the movie! http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/04/nickelodeon-announces-new-invader-zim-tv-movie
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