Confirmed: 'Secret Door' With Sofia Coppola & Kirsten Dunst Is A Hoax

by Kevin Jagernauth
April 25, 2011 6:21 AM
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Well, that was fun while it lasted. As you no doubt heard over the Easter weekend, the blogosphere lit up when a Twitter account supposedly belonging to Francis Ford Coppola's production company American Zoetrope tweeted, "Happy to announce that Kirsten Dunst has agreed to be in Sofia Coppola‘s new film ‘Secret Door’. Script is still being finished. Stay tuned!” Sounded too good to be true -- and indeed, that was the case.

A few hours later some pretty obvious clues started surfacing much to our disappointment and chagrin. First, the Twitter account posted what purported to be eight pages of the script -- some of the worst writing we’ve ever seen (Sample: “It was he, I pondered most of”) -- and then the twitter account name changed multiple times over the day from Zoetrope Films to Sofie Coppola to MsSofia Coppola to SCoppolaFans and back to MsSofiaCoppola. Earlier today, the account more or less signed off saying "All joking aside, please follow @AmZoetrope ( for more news. This account will be deleted. Thank you. Nothing more to say. Bye." Of course, this is a fake account too. We reached out to reps for Kirsten Dunst just to get the final confirmation of what we assumed and we're not surprised by what we heard.

"I know they'd love to work together again but this project doesn't even exist. Wishful thinking from someone!" a spokesperson for Dunst said. Why anyone would write a fake Sofia Coppola script is beyond us, but then again, people are writing fake "Batman" scripts so anything is possible we suppose.

So chalk it up to a bit of an excited sugar high from chocolate rabbits and quasi-hoax on the internet. But nothing to see here, please move on.

More: Films, Actresses, Secret Door, Kirsten Dunst

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anonymous | April 29, 2011 8:12 AMReply

Anyone have the eight pages ? Thanks

my email: azdo18@hotmail.fr
Steven Flores | April 26, 2011 6:23 AMReply

Man, I got excited for a project that seemed interesting though the 8 pages I downloaded seemed interesting.

Motherfucker.
Gabe57 | April 26, 2011 3:16 AMReply

It's another confirmation: the web is a powerful accelerator for news. But very often the false information circulating on the web. What a pity! You should never confuse wishful thinking with the reality.
Bem | April 25, 2011 9:44 AMReply

Unbelievable!
Jason | April 25, 2011 8:45 AMReply

Damn. Had me excited for a second there..