Thursday, May 06, 2010

J.J. Abrams says 'Super 8' has nothing to do with 'Cloverfield'


From ew, Yesterday, J.J. Abrams told New York Magazine that his new project, Super 8, is not a Cloverfield sequel or prequel — despite the fact that it reportedly has a similar amateur-footage, non-human-creature premise. We’ll all get a peek at whatever it is tomorrow, when the Super 8 trailer debuts in front of Iron Man 2 (Abrams confirmed that the top-secret clip was sent to theaters in canisters that could only be opened with a special code), so let’s start speculating! Could this in fact be the Spielberg-Abrams collaboration announced last week? Something completely different?

4 comments:

Octopunk said...

Hey! I just this morning stuck the following comment on the earlier Cloverfield 2 post:

"Since I'm catching up on comments I thought I'd do some homework (google search) on this one. From some site called 411mania:

'Rumours were floating that the super-secret Super 8 trailer that is set to debut on Friday with Iron Man 2 was actually a trailer for Cloverfield 2. Producer JJ Abrams has refuted that rumour, saying the trailer "has nothing whatsoever to do with Cloverfield, despite your expert reporting."

Super 8 is said to center on some kids in the late 70s or 80s who discover an alien in some Super 8 movie footage they get developed.'

That makes sense, because why would a sequel of the digitally shot Cloverfield have anything to do with Super 8?"

JPX said...

I almost published that comment the other day but I thought Jordan would yell at me.

Octopunk said...

No, no, no. While Jordan said he'd love to be wrong, you would've been proving him right. And nothing in life is better than that.

JPX said...

I meant that he might consider that description a "spoiler".

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