Real Cloverfield Monster Concept Art Revealed! Maybe…

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 6, 2008

Get ready for it, folks. The closer and closer we get to the release of Cloverfield, the super-secret monster movie from J.J. Abrams produced monster flick, the more ridiculous the news is going to get. Today we get another piece of concept art that could be pretty reputable. It appears to be close to the small tidbits of the monster that we have seen from the recent trailers, but who knows.

A reader named Miguel sent the following email to Horror-Movies.ca:

“Here’s another interesting Possibility people on my myspace forum titled Cloverfield’s Monster Theories have been posting a picture of this monster who was created by Peter Konig who is Tippett’s art director for the upcoming, top secret JJ Abrahms production “Cloverfield”. Here is a link to the website from where this picture originated. http://www.conceptart.org. Don’t know how true it is but looks more closer to what I see in the trailer then that rancor wanna be.”

And now, the photo:

Personally, I think this could be a solid lead, but there is no way to be 100% sure. So I will leave the debate up to you.

UPDATE: Our good friend Pete over at /Film pointed out to us that this could be a video game mockup by Peter Konig’s company, Massive Black. He pointed out this image that shows clay figures of this and two other creatures on a table in the Massive Black office. My thoughts are that this could be for something else, but it also could be an early design for the Cloverfield monster. What I do know is that if you head over to Conceptart.org and check out Peter Konig’s designs, they all seem to fit into the same sort of vision. So while this may NOT be the monster from Cloverfield, it can’t be too far off. Also, for those of you visual ninjas out there, you can take a look at this slow-motion trailer clip and compare the real monster to the one in the above image. And be sure to let us know what you think…

So what do you think? Is this the real Cloverfield monster?

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Butch

All I know is that the monster better look completely and unequivocally AWESOME. Anything less than a 100% perfect, knock the cover off the ball home run after all this build up is going to be bad.

Sean

Hey, isn't that the Rancor from Star Wars?

Khalif

I'm not to sure about the face. On the Slusho website that Abrams said was related to the movie, he said to carefully read the "History" Section because it would give you a clue as to what the movie and monster would be about. And in the history section it mentioned a whale. So I think that it would look more like a monster whale just like Godzilla started as a lizard and became a monster lizard. I just hope to God that it won't be like the horrible "Blair Witch Project" where they didn't even show the witch. And with the movie being in a POV type style of filming like "The Blair Witch Project" the guy/gal holding the camera had better get a long, great, and clear shot of the monster in action.

Ryan from Philadelphia

I hope not...

uhhh

You people seriously need to GET-A-LIFE!

Khalif

we are so stop living in ours

jk

That picture was done in 2003. I don't think that's it.

MF Dave

Khalif, I know what you mean but J.J. Abrams said that despite the lack of monster in the trailers and stuff, there will be a considerably large amount of screentime for it in the movie and that we will become "intimate" with it towards the end. I also hear that we see people getting eaten and ripped in half and stuff, so my guess is we'll be seeing a lot of him. Abrams just wanted to keep the monster under wraps as much as possible. He's even waiting to release a toy of the monster until after the movie comes out. All I know is, I can't wait and I will be there at midnight next week.

uhhh is an idiot

@uhhh
Waaa! People have interests other than my own. WAAAA!

Lets see... socializing with others about what about mutual interests
OR
Trolling message boards to tell complete strangers that they have no lives.
Seems to be a clear cut case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Khalif

Thanks for clearing that up for me MF Dave. I was 50-50 on seeing it or download it to save my money if it was going to be a Blair witch project screw up. Now I'm 100% sure that I want to see it.

Real Cloverfield Monster Concept Art Revealed! Maybe…

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