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Wow, Maybe Mr. Big Really Will Die

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When we posted our first-ever List yesterday, of ten fictional characters who must kick the bucket, we never anticipated our recommendations would yield such immediate results! It seems one of our ten targets may already be marked for death: Actor Chris Noth tells the New York Post that in some previous plot outline for the Sex and the City movie, “Mr. Big had a fatal heart attack and died.â€

We don’t care that he was maybe joking! Or that he seemed unaware that the Sex and the City movie has actually been green-lit! Here’s hoping screenwriter Michael Patrick King follows through on this impulse and whacks Carrie Bradshaw’s oldest flame in the first reel.

Earlier: Our Hit List: Ten Fictional Characters Who Must Die
Dust Off Your Manolos: ‘Sex and the City’ Heading to the Big Screen