would it be against the law to release a fake entertainment press release announcing the death of an unnamed anonymous stagehand working on a movie if it was a lie?

I don't think that would technically be a crime

I would hype the film long before it was released, with planted infotainment press releases about dangers on the set, and actors needing to see psychotherapists while filming the movie, simply because of the nature of the content...

lol see?......

I would release fake ass news stories saying the actors required therapists to help them through the filming

Just make it sound like it's really bad news from the get to

Have everybody thinking the movie is jinxed or the set is haunted or whatever the fuck they want to think

maybe even drop hints that certain controversial scenes somehow made it into the finished movie

like the guy who didn't actually die. The fake story about a stage hand dying that type of shit... You could do little press releases about "some critics claim the actual footage from the death somehow ended up in the final cut of the film"

You see what I'm saying?....
I'm just tossing out ideas

But you get the drift, right?
I'm suggesting they could create a fake hype around the movie long before it's released

And the message is clear:
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A REALLY WEIRD DISTURBING SCARY MOVIE

DISTURBINGLY REAL....
disturbingly graphic
with really really cool rave music and high-end visual effects and it would be like a special effects cavalcade

with a bunch of raping and assaulting interspersed throughout the story

But the book ends with Alex starting a cult

The book ends completely differently than the film

And I say follow it out to the end just like the book. Have the cult and everything