Super 8

so apparently Abrams had this on the 'super' down low, which I guess would be easy with all of the Lost hype going on...

is either a prequel or sequel, no one really knows right now but the teaser will be playing before Iron Man 2....

I always thought this could be turned into a great franchise of films...

and be better than the first, which I really like despite the main character holding the camera and his cohorts being idiots....

Military pov, other people in Manhattan's pov, different types of film....

could turn into America's Godzilla....

yeah cloverfield was really good. heard they were making a 2nd film of the same events from another groups perspective. and they cross paths with the original films group at some point

whatchu hear?

I really liked Cloverfield as well even though all the characters were annoying pricks.

The monster is better the less you know about it, it will be hard to make another film without fucking up the mystery at least a bit by filling in gaps

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/

boooooooooooooooooo

  On 5/6/2010 at 12:41 AM, The Overlook said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/

 

boooooooooooooooooo

lol

I didn't get a chance to see Cloverfield while it was in the theaters.

Will it hold up at all in the home theater? Maybe I'll wait until I get the new 60".

Heard about this earlier today when I interneted for secrets in Iron Man 2.

I didn't see the trailer before the film though, and didn't like Cloverfield anyway. Oh well.

The screenshot above looks like tentacle porn. Let's hope that's the case...live action tentacle porn could be the boon Hollywood is looking for in the wake of neon blue cock addicts aka. Avatar fans.

  On 5/6/2010 at 12:41 AM, The Overlook said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/

 

boooooooooooooooooo

Wait...that shit is already in post production???

Fuck me in the ass .

y is this thread called Super 8 yo?

Allegedly, it's a bit of a prequel because as opposed to Cloverfield being filmed on a digicam, the sequel is filmed on Super 8 or something...

I read somewhere that Spielberg is supposed to be doing something with Abrams involving Super 8 actually, but hopefully it's something else.

right now it is....

thanks the thread derailment Ben...

kind of looking forward to the American 'Let The Right one in'...

the original is too Scandinavian.....

JA!

I like the Cloverfield concept a lot but the first film isn't as good as it could've been, still a fun watch though, great use of cgi intermingled with home video footage....and the creature rules

Let The Right One In was one of the most intense, interesting movies Ive ever watched with subtitles. Fucking good film.. too Scandinavian?? no it was perfect

cloverfield is one of my favorite movies from the 00s

i sort of got really worked up watching it. reminded me very much of 9-11. and it felt so real. i actually got really, really into it and got kind of upset. loved the experience.

so awesome when they freak out cause the girl is infected.. and the initial attack is also one of the most spine tinglingly awesome creative things i've seen in theaters.

yeah the characters were terrible and irritating

isn't that sin tho OP?

i heard this movie has NOTHING to do with cloverfield.

Thats the word...supposedly

Cloverfield was great right until they showed the monster, also one of the worse monster designs of ever, I think Doom 1 had better ones.

What fucking blows my mind is that no one seems to take issue with the sounds the mini-monsters make

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-GKHzRcbAM

starting around :40, wabwawawa sounds like yoshi spinning out in mario kart or something

what are you doing here????!!!!

yeah I love the parasites, little idm sound gremlins....

I hope this movie is a bunch of art school fags trying to make a real film and end up filming themselves getting hunted and eaten.....

  On 5/6/2010 at 12:53 AM, The Overlook said:

The screenshot above looks like tentacle porn. Let's hope that's the case...live action tentacle porn could be the boon Hollywood is looking for in the wake of neon blue cock addicts aka. Avatar fans.

The Overlook secretly gets a boner every time he posts about Avatar.

the official word:

moviemaking heavyweights J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg began collaborating on a hush-hush project a year ago called "Super 8" that they concocted from discussions of their own early filmmaking experiences. Despite Bad Robot's Cheney-level secrecy, bits and pieces about the project (some right, some wrong) started bubbling up last week.

Well, I saw the teaser trailer last night, and here's what I can finally tell you:

Abrams has written the original script and will direct the film this fall for a summer 2011 release through Paramount, where Bad Robot resides. Spielberg is producing the project, which will be in the $45 million-$50 million range.

It has nothing to do with "Cloverfield" and will be shot traditionally (i.e. not hand-held). It's potentially a huge movie for Paramount, despite its midrange budget, which is why it's got a slot during Paramount's already crowded 2011 summer slate.

The studio will have to fit it in with "Thor," "Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom," "Transformers 3," "First Avenger: Captain America" and the Abrams-produced "Mission: Impossible IV." And "Star Trek 2" isn't expected until June 29, 2012, with an as-yet-unfinished screenplay by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindelof, so Abrams could still direct that after "Super 8" if he chose (which, technically, he hasn't yet).

But on to the trailer.

It's 90 seconds long and plays out with utter simplicity. I'll leave it to others to ruin the surprises for the multitudes flocking to see it run in front of "Iron Man 2's" midnight screenings tonight (the trailer is not actually attached to the "IM2" reels, though they are locked away together in combo-locked canisters as they're delivered this morning to theaters at 8 a.m.).

But it's straightforward, effective and very, very enticing. Abrams shot it independently of the actual film shoot about a month ago, and the Bad Robot team cut together the teaser while putting together his new NBC series "Undercovers" and the trailer for their November release "Morning Glory" over the past month.

In terms of tweaking audience appetite for absolutely having to see the movie, Abrams and Spielberg are masters. This quick, visceral and creepy tease of "Super 8" certainly does the trick.

What it doesn't let anyone in on is the plot of the movie or the rest of the context that we had heard actually generated the idea. Namely, the possibility that a group of kids in 1979 are playing around making movies with their Super 8 cameras (as Abrams and Spielberg did as kids) and accidentally capture something ... sinister, on film.

Now, despite all our requests, Abrams and camp have refused to confirm anything about the plot. Abrams has said he doesn't want to comment on this -- he'd rather maintain the mystery and let the images speak for themselves.

Fair enough, and certainly expected. So take all these plot descriptions you're reading around the web with a giant heap of salt.

But the project is being produced by Amblin along with Bad Robot. So if you can imagine the supernatural styles of current BR and early '80s Spielberg combined, you should have a pretty good idea of where all this is going.

Bad Robot's first feature project, "Cloverfield," was rolled out in a similarly out-of-nowhere fashion, its teaser also filmed and cut together independent of the movie shoot. That teaser was thrown on the front of "Transformers" when it hit theaters in the summer of 2007. That monster movie ultimately grossed $168 million worldwide for Paramount when it opened in January 2008.

But again, "Super 8" has nothing to do with "Cloverfield." And "Super 8" is a solo J.J. Abrams movie, something we've never seen before and something sure to play much bigger.

For added pleasure, if you want to get an explanation from Abrams himself about why he handles his creative life with such passionate protectiveness, check out this TED speech he gave two years ago about the Mystery Box.

As for "Super 8," we're all gonna have to wait another year until that mysterious train pulls into the station.

so no Cloverfield connection...but should be cool

more info:

“In 1970 Area 51 was closed down and everything was shipped to an undisclosed location in Ohio”. Then you see a train carrying lots of cargo loads. Cut to a car driving down the road that jumps up on the tracks and heads straight toward the train. Cut to black screen and then the words “From Director J.J. Abrams”. Then back to the train and car colliding into each other, the the train derails, the camera slowly zooms in on one of the tipped over cargo cars of the derailed train, then something is punching on the walls inside the train cart trying to escape. Cut to black screen and then the title ”Super 8“.

is it on the interwebzorz yet?