I like Lost, I like mystery, I like puzzles, I like the destruction of New York, I like creative gimmicks and I like Monsters, so news of the latest J.J Abrams' (Lost) movie trailer that has been spreading like wildfire got me excited.
What's known so far:
Release Date: 1/18/2008
Producer: J.J. Abrams
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Drew Goddard
Premise (so far as known): A small group of people witness a 'monster' attack on New York City.
In February 2007, Paramount Pictures secretly green-lit project Cloverfield to be produced by J. J. Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Drew Goddard. The casting process was also carried out in secret, with no script being sent out to candidates. With production estimated to have a budget of $30 million, filming began in mid-June in New York. Due to Transformers showing high tracking numbers before its release, Paramount decided to release a teaser for 'Cloverfield' before the robot film to build hype. The movie is shot with a hand-held camera to emulate a home-movie style. The teaser did not reveal the name of the film, but it showed a release date of January 18, 2008. It appears the creature is referred to as "the Parasite" in-studio.
There exist three viral websites seemingly linked to this project.
Two Photos
Ethan Haas Was Right
Ethan Haas Was Wrong
The first is two photos, from the film/trailer, watermarked with a date and time. The second is a series of flash-based puzzle games that play a video explaining pieces of this alternate reality. A relatively solid explanation of it can be found
here. The latter is a self-explanatory blog, which I will let you read for yourself.
So, what do you think? Thoughts, theories etc etc...
Oh, yeah,
and the trailer...