Cloverfield (1-18-08)

[HamishT]

Ok, I just got back from Transformers (awesome, lot of fun), but what sometimes is more exciting is the new trailers attached to a new release film.

The last 'teaser' made the screen go big, and it featured some kind of going away party for someone, geeze i cant even remeber the characters name. but all hell broke loose, things exploaded outside and stuff went flying through the air. it looked AMAZING. then the name came up 'J.J. Abrams'. and MY GOD, i think I just watched the teaser for the new Star Trek movie. No movie title was shown but thats all i could guess it was.

oh yeah, one of the objects flying through the air was the head from the statue of liberty. it landed in the street.

[dre10g]

I think the move IS cloverfield.

Check this out..

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33140

[AirSickMoth]

IMDB

Looks like the movie still has its title secret (or undecided yet). But if it is coming out January 18th, they must have been filming it for a while now, all this time in secret, don't you think? If they are keeping the title secret and don't just have writers block about it, I hope it is something familiar like Godzilla or Mothra or something. They did mention the guy is going to Japan, coincidence or clue?

I hope they keep going with the secretiveness of it all right up to the release, I'm rather enjoying it (but I know they won't).

[Kal-el]

There is now an official site for "Cloverfield" or whatever it's going to be called. But for now all they have up is a snapshot from the party they showed in the teaser.


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

[Kal-el]

Source

I have seen the trailer for the monster movie coming from producer JJ Abrams on January 18, 2008. The trailer, which was dated last week and lasts 2 minutes and 16 seconds, will debut in front of Beowulf on November 16th, and it's supposed to be when the title is announced. The version of the trailer I saw had the title attached at the end, so unless this title card was a temporary placeholder for the real title, this movie is called... wait for it...

Cloverfield.

Yep, the name we heard from the start. This does make me think that maybe this trailer, marked as Trailer #1, V.17, with "Newest FX Shots", could change between now and the 16th, especially in regards to the name. We'll see. In the meantime, here's a rundown of what I saw in the trailer (based on the notes I took when I was shown a poor quality copy of the trailer. I was only allowed to watch it twice):

It opens with text:

Multiple sightings of case designate 'Cloverfield'
Camera retrieved at incident site 'U.S. 447'
(Area formerly known as Central Park)

Then we see the footage from the teaser trailer, mostly fast forwarded up to the end, with the explosion and the Statue of Liberty's head landing in the middle of the street. Then there's a guy speaking into the camera.

Guy: My name is Robert Hawkins. Approximately seven hours ago, someTHING attacked the city.

There are flashes of chaos. Much of the trailer is made up of split second moments, and when combined with the fact that it's extreme shaky cam style and that I was watching a terrible copy, it can be hard to make things out. There's a helicopter shot of the headless Statue of Liberty.

Guy again: I have no idea what it is. If you found this,if you're watching this thing, you know more about it than i do.

Then there's a shot of jets flying overhead, in daylight.

A title card reads 'From producer JJ Abrams'

There's more flashes of chaos, there's a guy on a cellphone trying to find out where 'Beth' is, and then there's a girl yelling, 'We cannot go in the middle of the city! we've got to get out of here!'

More chaos. More quick shots. I imagine this stuff will be picked apart when the trailer debuts online.

Over this is what seems to be a conversation between an Army guy and a girl.

Army dude: There's nothing we can do right now

Girl: do you know what that thing is?

Army dude: Whatever it is, it's winning.

More flashes. An argument:

Guy 1: We have no idea what's out there!

Guy 2: I don't care what's out there. Listen to me - she's dying!

Then there's footage of army guys running and shadows on a wall. Shadows of a screaming woman being attacked by a small monster (possibly two - either she's being pulled away from the monster by someone behind her or there's another monster behind her). It's confirmed: the movie has a big beast and small ones. Like the American Godzilla.

People are hiding in a store, and there are huge thumps making everything shake. The windows of the store explode in.

The big sequence is next: Army guys running up a street, firing into the air. Tanks come up behind them, firing. Rockets launch up.

We see the big monster briefly passing between two buildings. I couldn't make it out at all, but it appeared to be HUGE.

Characters race down subway steps, there's a giant explosion, the cameraman is down, there's a figure in a tunnel, people are yelling 'Run!' and running through the tunnel.

Outside of Central Park, a horse drawn carriage goes by.

Guy: Are you still filming?

Cameraman: Yeah. People are going to want to know... how it all went down.

Shot of the Brooklyn Bridge. A helicopter taking off. Some chaos. Then inside the copter girls screaming as the copter spins out of control.

Cut to black, then the title comes up: Cloverfield.

Then the text: End of tape

Then the release date: 1-18-08

[editman]

Quicktime TV Spots for the 'big budget sci-fi Blair Witch':

'Incredible', hi-res, 16.4MB:
http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/cl...ible30_lrg.mov

'Witness', hi-res, 16.1MB:
http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/cl...ness30_lrg.mov

'Extreme', hi-res, 16.1MB:
http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/cl...reme30_lrg.mov
(Alternate link from IGN: http://moviesmovies.ign.com/movies/v...qthighwide.mov)

'Impossible', hi-res, 15.7MB:
http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/cl...ible30_lrg.mov

'See It', hi-res, 6.18MB:
http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/cl...eeit15_lrg.mov

[Kal-el]

Early Cloverfield Screening/Review

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35236