New ‘Cloverfield’ Details Emerge

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 21, 2007

Cloverfield is not for the motion sick.

Recently released information from an industry “insider” describes the film as “an old-fashioned monster movie retold in a very modern Blair Witch sort of way.” So expect a whole lot more of the nausea-inducing shaky camera technique used in the film’s mysterious trailer, which premiered before Michael Bay’s summer blockbuster Transformers.

An unnamed source quoted in an article on DreadCentral.com has released some very limited but seemingly solid information on this mysterious JJ Abrams project, codenamed Cloverfield but also known as 1-18-08.

Dispelling rumors that the Paramount-Bad Robot Productions collaboration is merely another Godzilla remake, a big screen version of the arcade game Rampage, a spin-off of the TV show Lost, a movie about a never-before-seen monster called “The Parasite,” or even a live action film based on the 1980s animated TV series Voltron: Defender of the Universe (even though we all already knew that it wouldn’t be a Voltron flick because movies based on 80s cartoons are apparently all doomed to be nothing short of craptastic), this unnamed source gave the DreadCentral.com writer who calls himself “The Foywonder” the following information:

“[T]hat giant monster that emerges from the ocean to begin laying waste to New York City … it didn’t come alone…

[M]uch of the movie will revolve around the characters fleeing for their lives, not from the big one stomping the city, but from the ‘raptor-like’ smaller versions hunting them down.”

For more information on Cloverfield (a.k.a. random, time-coded still photos), visit the only official Web site associated with the film: www.1-18-08.com.

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