Cloverfield, JJ Abrams produced monster movie Options

[FireFrost]

It starts off at a party in a loft in New York City for this guy around his mid-20's who's leaving (the city). It's filmed on home video cameras and looks just sort of like another independent drama comedy about this guy. This goes one for a little while when all of a sudden there's a big earthquake and people start to go a bit crazy and they all run up to the roof to see the lower half of Manhattan, and one of these buildings, erupt into a huge ball of fire after this unidentified object from the sky comes flying down and hits it. Then people really start to go crazy and the camera is dropped and blacks out. Then it comes back up and they're out running on the streets and all of a sudden this huge flaming object comes flying through the air and lands on the street and it's the ripped off head of the Statue of Liberty. You can hear this odd freaky roar in the background as more huge flaming/smoking things fly through the air and it ends with people running and screaming.

Alias, Lost creator JJ abrams is producing and Matt Reeves is directing it...

if you see transformers..it is playing in front of it...looks sooooo kool

[Dezzie]

Oh, and it's written by Drew Goddard. If you are a huge Buffy/Angel geek like me you know what that means.

If you ain't- it=win.

[FireFrost]

sadly...it aint coming out til next January...1-18-2008

[Begemot Geroi]

Two days before my birthday. Right on!

[AlterEgo]

Yeah I saw the preview in the Transformers coming attractions, and I was like "What the heck is the name of the movie?" lol, cause it looked good, but it failed to give a title towards the end of the trailer.

[FireFrost]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZf7oVLlgY

the sound sucks soooooo badly, but here is the trailer for Cloverfield...im sorry, but i didnt shoot this footage...someone on imdb did...

however, just the visuals alone are kick ******..no need for sound;)

[Begemot Geroi]

however, just the visuals alone are kick ******..no need for sound;)

Wow, they certainly blasted that one down for copyright violations pretty fast.

[theJollity]

I was at the cinema today for Transformers and one pre-show preview in particular caught my eye...

It was a shaky camera at a surprise party, as though it were a home made video. It's a going-away party for someone leaving for Japan. A low rumbling is heard, and new reporters think it's an earthquake. There's an explosion... the camera heads outside, debris from the explosion lands everywhere, one of them being the head of Lady Liberty...

after that it said "From Producer J.J. Abrams" and then "Coming 1.18.07". It had all this, but no title at all.

It caught me, so I did a bit of research on it, and so far what I've got is that it's a "secret project" of Abrams' (of Lost and Alias fame), and its working title is Cloverfield.

You can read an article about it here, and see the trailer right here (before it gets pulled from Youtube).

The trailer was first released during Transformers movies.


I don't know about you, but I'm really intrigued by this... can't wait to see what it actually is.
What do you think about it?

better description from the article:

On shaky video cam footage, we see a group of young New Yorkers throwing a party for a friend who is moving. No music, no voice-over intoning “In a world…” Just what looks like raw footage. Then there’s booming and shaking. An earthquake? What’s up? The party goers head to the roof, where they can see things flying through the sky (meteors? explosion debris?) More running and confusion.Somebody says something like “Look at the size of that thing!” but we don’t see it on the videocam footage, which still looks raw and real even though it involves ****** shooting out of the sky. Near the very end of the trailer, we see a massive chunk of debris hit the ground: the head of the Statue of Liberty. Then: “From J. J. Abrams. Coming January 18 2008.” No title.

This post has been edited by theJollity: Jul 5 2007, 11:10 PM

[Begemot Geroi]

I think it looks really interesting. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to be War of the Worlds part 2, though.

[Sylarfan]

I saw that trailer when I went to Transformers. I am so excited to see that movie. That movie looks F'ing awesome. I heard that this movie, is the new 2008 Godzilla movie that people were talking about last year. But I really don't know.

[theJollity]

somehow I don't quite think so...

according to the article I linked to up there, Cloverfield looks like it's going to be some sort of monster movie. Which is weird because while I was watching it I guessed "Godzilla...?", especially when one of the characters tells the main guy, "Looks like you should've left for Japan early..."

I'm really intrigued.
Apparently there are a few websites linked to the movie as well, and again, these are from the above article:
1-18-08.com
EDIT: The following websites ARE directly linked to the movie.
ethanhaaswasright.com
ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com
people are comparing this kind of thing to The Lost Experience ARG.

This post has been edited by theJollity: Jul 7 2007, 09:18 PM

[theJollity]

aaand some more goodies-

Details on casting, development and shooting
judging by the nature of the casting, it looks like they really wanted to keep this top-secret.

Analyzing Cloverfield
When reading these things, remember only one thing: people on the inside are really trying to be all vague about it, so nothing (especially the future!) is written in stone.

[BleuReivers]

aaand some more goodies-

Details on casting, development and shooting
judging by the nature of the casting, it looks like they really wanted to keep this top-secret.

Analyzing Cloverfield
When reading these things, remember only one thing: people on the inside are really trying to be all vague about it, so nothing (especially the future!) is written in stone.

Where did you hear that ethanhaaswasright.com was affiliated?

If it is Godzilla, which is interesting, then ehwr.com is most likely not related. If you've been playing the puzzles, you'll know what I mean.

If it IS related to the puzzles, then that's very interesting. It makes me think of Exmortis. And that would be a BA movie.

The trailer showed the severed head of the Statue of Liberty. After doing a bit of my own research, I found that a few things have a headless statue of liberty. Two of which are SMOKIN' ACES, and HALF LIFE 2.

I don't know if it's Godzilla. It kind of makes sense, I guess. But for whatever reason, the characteristics of the trailer did not suggest Godzilla. But... something... I know it's there, it's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't seem to put words to it. Either way, I think it's going to be good.

I'm going to be doing more research on this in the future, and will hit you up with what I find.

Having said that, I will leave you with this:

So what is CLOVERFIELD? Well, word from inside the company is that CLOVERFIELD is a giant monster movie, featuring something that's being referred to internally as "The Parasite," and we’re going to see a trailer for it very soon that’s been designed and shot even as we speak. I’m not sure if it’s going to be attached to TRANSFORMERS or if we’ll see it later in the summer, but it’s definitely coming soon. And the end of it should feature one of those iconic images that makes people talk about a trailer for months.

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[Dreadman]

Wow, i've spent an hour trying to do the second puzzle on Ethanhaaswasright. I just cannot get it!

And with those games, it does seem very...alieny? The big grey ball seems to have some markings and a picture of something on it also.

This post has been edited by Dreadman: Jul 6 2007, 12:45 AM

[BleuReivers]

Okay, last little tid bit. Due to information found here , I am going to say that ethanhaaswasright.com is in fact, related to the movie. Which changes the feel completely. The only information that I am basing it on is this:

The article, if you do not wish to read it (a good find, if I do say so myself, it was just posted 3 hours ago), tells of how trailers of the movie were posted on youtube, then taken down with a message like this:

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corp."

The "prize" videos that you recieve when completing one of the puzzles at ehwr.com were put on youtube, as well, but when I went to view past message 1, I got the same message.

Paramount has their hand in ethanhaaswasright.com, and ironically, the trailer and that site popped up at the same time.

I think they're related... which makes the movie completely different. Because, if you play the puzzles, you'll find out who Ethan Haas was...

Dreadman - the second puzzle - look to the stars, and spell out HAAS in the strange alphabet.

[Dreadman]

Gawd, I thought so, I tried out the initials EHWR, then realised, "Haas has 4 letters".

Obvious, lol, thanks BR.

And why do the videoes totally remind me of Sylar

This post has been edited by Dreadman: Jul 6 2007, 01:01 AM

[BleuReivers]

Gawd, I thought so, I tried out the initials EHWR, then realised, "Haas has 4 letters".

Obvious, lol, thanks BR.

No prob. I managed to get the 3rd puzzle down to one light left, but then it just started me over. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

[Dreadman]

Oh, I just finished the 3rd one, I did it completely randomely

[BleuReivers]

Help?

w00t! NEVER MIND! I got it! yay!

This post has been edited by BleuReivers: Jul 6 2007, 01:08 AM

[Dreadman]

lol, congrats, I wouldn't have been able to help, I just clicked and moved randomly. Now the 4th one, that is hard...

[BleuReivers]

Yeah... I haven't been able to figure it out yet... I know that all three green balls have to be in the goals at the save time. But it's really hard..

[Dreadman]

I almost had it for a second, they were all the right distance apart, but I had to move then in a perfect circle so they'd go into the goals, then one of them got caught on a wall. Bugger.

[HERΟ]

according to the article I linked to up there, Cloverfield looks like it's going to be some sort of monster movie. Which is weird because while I was watching it I guessed "Godzilla...?", especially when one of the characters tells the main guy, "Looks like you should've left for Japan early..."

I'm really intrigued.
Apparently there are a few websites linked to the movie as well, and again, these are from the above article:
1-18-08.com
NOTE: The following websites have not actually been proven to be directly linked to the movie...
ethanhaaswasright.com
ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com
people are comparing this kind of thing to The Lost Experience ARG.

Way to go with the sleuthin' skills! I also thought it was a Godzilla-like movie when I saw the preview, but I hadn't gotten around to researchin' it.

I don't see any games/puzzles at the EHWR site. I right-clicked to "play" the flash file, but nothing happened. So then I looked at the view source, and the text that should be shown is the following:

...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.

Since I don't see the games/puzzles, I don't know how the text relates... But I mirrored the main swf file here, it that helps (it's best to view it at full size).

Are tptb tweakin' the site so the games are down at the moment? I can get the swf file to play some animations when messing with it by itself, and it looks like there are puzzles, but something's not working for me, I guess.

Well, thanks theJollity for the scoop! I usually look for clues about stuff like that; must be outta practice or somethin'.

[BleuReivers]

See, what you just quoted further makes me believe that it's an Exmortis like movie. And that would be so cool. Like I said before, I don't think it's Godzilla.

But, think symbolism here. I have to go to lunch with a friend, and then to work - and then I may be going to see Transformers afterwards. But, we're starting to get a lot of information, and the fun part is putting it all together.

If someone wants to look into "the fires from which nothing could escape," and "the world was again remade," that would be great. If not, I'll do it when I get home. You see, the thing is, that "world was again remade" thing throws me for a loop. Because it was AGAIN remade. Why was it remade to begin with. I'm going to post a list of parrallels between this and Exmortis as well.

I'm starting to get excited.

[Kemo91]

Yeah BR, about the 4th puzzle, I kinda used a walkthrough Now I'm stuck on the 5th one and I have no idea how to solve it! The walkthrough is no help