J.J. Abrams and the 'Cloverfield' Debate

It's not the remake of THE HOST. I heard from the mouth of a production exec at Universal that they're still working on the script for that remake, which will likely take place in the pacific northwest and involve a nuclear reactor that falls into a river and creates a monster out of a regular creature.

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Cant wait to hear more about this.. it sounds like an interesting plot, and i love the work JJ has done so far

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Sounds interesting...could it possibly be Lost related...at one point the lost producers had mentioned the possibility of a Lost movie as a tie-in to the final of the series...if that were the case it would be intersting....

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Did you see any Apes....? Just wondering...


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I believe that all the rumors of it being just a "big monster movie" are bs. JJ Abrams is very clever and meticulous in planning, and this is no exception.

I agree with Danlos that this is LOST related. It would fit Abrams M.O. seeing as how 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 next year. Hmmm, isn't that right around the date that was shown on the trailer? Coincidence? With Abrams at the wheel, I think not.

Finally, to me, the sound of the "monster" in the teaser was eerily similar to the sounds of "the monster" on LOST.

In my opinion, "Cloverfield" is just clever media spin to conceal something that will put LOST permanently on map. (no pun intended)

Criticism welcomed, and please point out anything you disagree with me on.

Sincerely,
TheRoboticElephant

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I thought, and this may be a long shot, that this could possibly be the sequal that was never made for the american godzilla movie and although the first one didnt deserve the godzilla name it alone was a good movie as i recall the first one ended all kinds of wide open

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As an avid LOST fanatic, That of course was the first thing I thought of when seeing this trailer! The "monster" sounds just like our old friend "smokey" on Lost. You never see it except for the ball of fire in coming out of the city. It almost looks like a volcano erupting in the middle of manhattan...and YES, it tears the head off of the statue of liberty! I say Lost tie-in, just like the "Bad Twin" book. They never reveal the title or anything in the trailer...just JJ Abrams and Bad Robot, his production company that...surprise...makes Lost.

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Does anyone know where I can see this preview online? I saw it before Transformers and I want to watch it again.

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I seen this trailer last night. It looks like godzilla movie done on home video cameras. BUt it's Not at all as cheesy as that description sounds.

I cannot WAIT for this movie.

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I saw the special showing of Transformers last night and while that movie was amazing i couldn't stop thinking about the "no title" trailer. I'm a huge lost fan and as soon as i saw jj abrams name i turned to my boyfriend and started rambling about it being a lost movie. The sound that comes with the tremors is identical to the sound of the lost monster. The way season 3 left us makes this trailor seem like its a definate possibilty of a lost tie in.

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I would certainly hope this movie has nothing to do with LOST as that show went down the crapper after season one. It would be unfortunate if it was because like the show, it started off so well and showed such promise, only to disappoint.

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You know, I didn't think of it being a Lost tie-in at the time, but, after reading all of your comments....sure, why not Lost?

Maybe, just maybe that would explain the giant four toed foot on the Island?

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Everywhere I've read I've noticed that people assume the date at the end of the trailer '1-18-08' is a release date.

But upon further inspection I've come to realize, this date is a setting. A time for this movie to take place.

http://www.1-18-08.com

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Okay, folks. Listen up! If you listen carefully to the trailer you hear somebody in the crowd yell something like "Look, its a lion, its huge!" A lion? AND you know there was an allusion to Japan at the party. AND you know that it was the last preview RIGHT BEFORE Transformers began. Lion? Japan? Transformers related? Hello! VOLTRON!!!!

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I think maybe you heard that wrong VinDogg. The guy says "It's alive" not "It's a lion" as far as I can tell. I've seen Transformers twice already and I listened very closely to everything the second time, it's pretty clear. If it was Voltron, why would he be destroying NYC?

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Who said he was destroying NYC? What was shown in the trailer could have been the bad guy, right? Anyways, I don't really believe that its Voltron. I have another lead. During the party scene the Wolfmother song "Joker and the Thief" is distinctly heard. Well, I looked at the lyrics and a line goes "standing in a field of CLOVER" And the album art on the inside depicts a giant iguana/lizard. This, therefore, is proof for my initial guess- GODZILLA! I know it sounds far-fetched but J.J. Abrams loves for his viewers to find clues like that. I know because he does the same thing with Lost.

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Ok, now I think you may be onto something. Godzilla was of course the first thing that sprung to mind when I saw this, but I dismissed it right away. I agree with you that the song may shed some light, but tying it into Godzilla because of the album art is a stretch. For now, I'll go with it...it's the best lead so far. On the other hand, the fact that Wolfmother is the artist playing in the background does intrigue me. If I am not mistaken, Japanese lore refers to "mother earth" as a wolf. Most recently there was a great example of this in the PS2 game Okami. According to this article http://www.popworld.com/pages/artist?7DD120BE-A6BD-4E04-82FA-0BD80609F186
The band states the name means "Childern born of the Beast" so maybe we're looking at some nature's wrath type of story here. This also would support your Godzilla theory.

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Look, the name of the movie is

1-18-08

can't be more simple than that....

Mike B

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I absoultely have to agree with VinDogg at the end here... unfortunately Cligga was correct, what you hear is "It's Alive! It's Huge!" You could clearly make that out when they jump out off the steps of the buidling before the SOL head is thrown down the street.

I know nothing about LOST, but I really feel this is tied in some form or fashion to Godzilla and another sequel or remake. Godzilla is still one of the most profitable franchises in world history and a GOOD remake or something to that nature with this kind of 'Blair Witch' feel would be second to none. I like the idea that layer put out there for us... this is probably the BEST marketing I have ever seen...bravo Bad Robot and J.J. Abrams for getting everyone talking about something we know nothing about.

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Ready folks? NOT a Lost movie.

I work at Universal, and from what I've heard, it'll be a big monster romp-around. Hopefully, will be as cool as it sounds.

It looked cool as hell yesterday along with Nicole Kidman's "The Invasion" that looked like a direct copy of a Philip K. Dick story (possibly by the same name, if I remember correctly).

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