What is "Cloverfield"?

[Forkboy]

JJ Abrams Top Secret Cloverfield Movie Trailer Attached to Transformers

une 29, 2007
Source: Ain't It Cool News
by Alex Billington

I don't want to ruin this experience for anyone, but holy shit! I just went to a screening of Transformers (to see it for my second time) tonight, and I caught a trailer for a top secret untitled J.J. Abrams movie. This was seriously the craziest and coolest trailer I have EVER seen! If you want to hear more about it and hear the description of it, read on. Otherwise (which I suggest this is what you do), skip reading this until after you see Transformers, which this trailer will play in front of, and then come back to read more on the movie.

(see the trailer here; http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/07/09/jj-abrams-cloverfield-1-18-08-trailer-officially-hits/ )


Apparently this is a top secret project called Cloverfield that J.J. Abrams is producing and not directing. What is it, you ask? After doing some research over at Ain't It Cool News, I discovered this description.

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".

There's also a bit more about the style and what it may actually be about or how it'll work (which considering from the trailer, might be insanely cool).

And what makes this different than any other giant monster movie? Well, as I understand it, most of the film is going to be shot using home video cameras, as if from the point of view of real people who are experiencing an attack on New York. It’s designed as a fairly small picture, all things considered, and right now, they’re working to make sure the script is going to deliver some wild thrills (like an earthquake that levels Manhattan or an oil tanker flipping over by the Statue of Liberty), but that it’s not suddenly going to turn into a giant $150 million movie.

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Matt Reeves (Felicity) is directing based a script written by Drew Goddard (Lost, Alias).

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1. Please, please don't let this be the American remake of "The Host" n/t

[mtf80123]

2. Cloverfield was awesome!

Loved it in theater and again on my 50" Plasma screen! (Still waiting for BluRay version)

Is there going to be a sequel? I really hope so.

I want to know more about the monster. Finally an American play on a giant monster that can come back, over and over.

[Orrex]

3. I didn't see it in the theater, but I loved it on DVD

I expected to hate most or just about all of it, and I was amazed at how effective the entire film was. This marks the first time that I've ever seen an extended POV-camera sequence that actually worked, and did it ever!

If I have one complaint, it's that the opening sequence at the party went on too long. We could have gotten the same characterizations and back-story in about two minutes of screen time, so that part kind of dragged for me.

Still, the film was quite an accomplishment. Surprising at nearly every turn, and surprisingly effective at evoking the uncomprehending horror that you'd probably feel if a 300 foot monster just showed up out of nowhere.

I've heard suggestions that a sequel might be another "found" camera, from a different group of people who likewise had a hell of a night.

[Forkboy]

4. Will There Be A Cloverfield 2? Reeves Says...Well..Maybe?

Recently Christopher Monfette sat down with "Cloverfield" director, Matt Reeves for an interview that was posted on IGN, and discussed the possibility of a sequel.

Here is what Reeves had to say on the topic:
http://robojapan.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-there-be-cloverfield-2-reeves.html
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The studio wants a sequel, so my bet is that there will be a sequel. :)