Over the next couple of weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek restart. We all believed that this would be his next movie but according to AICN we will be seeing another Abrams movie before Trek is released.
How is this possible you ask?
Well apparently he has shot a film completely in secret. The movie in question is Cloverfield and the word is it’s a big giant monster movie that will see it’s trailer possibly attached to Transformers. Yes the movie is that far down the road.
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Well, as I understand it, most of the film is going to be shot using home video cameras, as if from the point of view of real people who are experiencing an attack on New York. It’s designed as a fairly small picture, all things considered, and right now, they’re working to make sure the script is going to deliver some wild thrills (like an earthquake that levels Manhattan or an oil tanker flipping over by the Statue of Liberty), but that it’s not suddenly going to turn into a giant $150 million movie.
I have to say if this turns out to be true, a big congratulations must surely go to Abrams for managing to get through pre-production and filming without anyone knowing about it. In this day and age, that is a near impossible task.
Hope this is true, the movie sounds like so much fun and it should prove to be a pleasant surprise for us next year (or maybe later this year, who knows?).
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I believe that all the rumors of it being just a “big monster movie” are bs. JJ Abrams is always very clever and meticulous in his planning, and this teaser is no exception.
This is probably a LOST related teaser. It would fit Abrams M.O. seeing as he put “The Hanso Foundation” into the credits of Mission Impossible 3. Not to mention the fact that they’re delaying the next season of LOST until the beginning of ‘08. Hmmm, isn’t that right around the date that was displayed on the “cloverfield” trailer? Coincidence? With Abrams at the wheel, I think not.
Finally, and maybe this is just me imagining things, but the sound of the “monster” in “Cloverfield” was eerily similar to the sounds of “the monster” on LOST.
In my opinion, “Cloverfield, the big monster movie” is just a clever media spin to conceal something that that could pontentially put LOST on map(no pun intended) as one of the best shows of the 21st century.
Criticism welcomed, and please point out any inaccuracies, or if you just plain disagree with me.
Sincerely,
TheRoboticElephant
I absolutley love that idea and I wouldn’t rule out the trailer having something to do with Lost. Especially when the news of Abrams hiring regular tv writers and directors (one of which has worked on lost) for the project and the way the last season ended.
It would quite frankly be one of the coolest things I have ever seen but it seems like an idea that is too well thought out and too clever for it to be true.
Bottom line is, they aren’t smart enough to do something like that.
Don’t be too sure Holmes. The boundaries between tv and film have been imposed on in more ways in the past 2 or 3 years than ever before, and directors/producers are always looking for new creative ways of crossing that border. Just look at the cult movement for Firefly that got Joss Whedon’s “Serenity” movie off the ground. I think Abrams and Lindelof and some of the others involved with LOST may just be crazy enough and smart enough to pull something like this off.
Sorry for any name misspellings,
TheRoboticElephant
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