Thanks to the top secret trailer and recent viral marketing of JJ Abrams’ new monster movie, it has entered into the top 50 current searches in google and is pulling in a whopping 10.0 on our buzzometer.
So here’s a recap of everything that has been confirmed about this ‘top secret’ project.
- JJ Abrams will produce
- Directed by Matt Reeves, who worked with Abrams on Felicity and has directed… (ahem)… the Pallbearer
- Written by Drew Godard, who has worked on Lost and Alias as well as Buffy and Angel
- The cast consists of unknowns
- An Abrams source has confirmed that the entire film will be shot in the handy-cam method seen in the trailer and that scenes from the trailer appear in the film. Read the quotes here.
- Shooting has already begun
- The film will be in cinemas on 18th January 2008
- If you’re unemployed or bored, check out www.ethanhaaswasright.com, a viral marketing site with some fiendish riddles that if solved will reveal some videos. Videos that, if you couldn’t be arsed doing all that, you can see here.
- Another official site, www.1-18-08.com, is posting pictures from the surprise party that appears in the trailer.
So that’s all that’s been confirmed, but that hasn’t put a cap on the wild speculation that are rife with nerdy salivation. A lot of people think it will turn out to be a Voltron film, based on the idea that about a minute and twenty seconds into the trailer someone yells what sounds like ‘It’s a lion!’
Of course, he actually says ‘Aaagh, it’s alive!’ Plus, if my city was being terrorised by a giant fucking monster, I’d be more likely to scream ‘Oh shit, let’s get the fuck out of here’, rather than ‘oh look, it’s a lion!” Unless of course he happened to be ignoring the carnage around him and was looking at pictures from his trip to the zoo.
The most ridiculous ‘it’s a lion’ theory I’ve read so far was someone’s comment on YouTube that this is actually a teaser for the new Thundercats movie. Yes, I can see it now: ‘Thundercats Take Manhattan.’ Don’t think so.
Stay tuned to the ATTIC for more Cloverfield news as it comes out.
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