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Shazaam! Sinbad To Make Genie Movie Everyone Thinks He Made Already

Earlier this week, The New Statesman ran a really interesting story about a large group of people on the internet who remember a movie from their childhoods named Shazaam featuring the actor Sinbad playing the role of a genie. Despite literally thousands of people – maybe you're even one of them – claiming to have detailed memories of the film, including its poster and plot details, there's no trace of the movie ever existing, and Sinbad himself denies ever making even a similar movie.

There are several theories that could explain the phenomenon. One is that the sharing of these recollections on the internet amplifies our brains' already high susceptibility to false memories. Another, called the Mandela effect, named after a group of people who remember Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s, suggests that the shared memories are the result of the type of alternate reality or time travel meddling we read about in comic books. And another theory goes like this:

https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/811729767309463553

Whatever the case, the article is on of the best reads you'll find on the internet, better even than some of the things you'll find at Bleeding Cool today, so it's very much worth taking some time to go and read it and get caught up.

One of the best parts of the story, or at least the one that had me laughing out loud the most while reading it, was the personal narrative of Sinbad himself, whose increasingly frustrated tweets insisting he had never starred in a movie as a genie were interspersed throughout the article. Now that, because of that article, Shazaam has gone even more viral than before, Sinbad has finally given in and agree to just make the damn movie already:

Bootstrap paradox? It looks like the time travel theory may be correct after all.

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