Posted on: May 12th, 2010 J.J. Abrams’ SUPER 8 Trailer Now Online
It was only days before Iron Man 2 hit theaters last week that we discovered that would be the venue of the debut of J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 trailer – a trailer we didn’t expect, for a film we didn’t know about. Film canisters containing the trailer were sent separately to theaters, apparently locked with a digital code that would be revealed to projectionists shortly before midnight screenings of Iron Man 2 last Thursday.
The internet lit up with speculation, after a detailed description of the trailer leaked, that Super 8 would serve as a prequel to Cloverfield. An early (and rumored) plot description from Vulture described the film as being centered around a group of kids in the late 70’s, early 80’s, who develop some film they shot on a super 8 camera and discover evidence of an alien creature caught in one of the frames. The source in the report also claimed that the film is “absolutely connected to 2008’s Cloverfield“. Well we can now negate any connection between Super 8 and Cloverfield, as Abrams himself quickly squashed that rumor bug.
So what is Super 8, if not another piece in the Cloverfield mythos? Well, we now know, and it’s much more exciting.
Super 8 is indeed it’s own entity, not connected to anything else in the Abramsverse. The film is written and will be directed by Abrams. It will also be produced by Steven Spielberg and released via Amblin Entertainment, fitting as Slashfilm reports that Super 8 is an homage to Spielberg’s Amblin era sci-fi fllms like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.
Color me very fucking interested.
Many of you were lucky enough to see the trailer in front of Iron Man 2, or you managed to see the bootlegged trailer before it was taken down. Paramount has now put up the trailer online for your viewing enjoyment, in hi-def over at Apple. If you just can’t wait for the download, check it out in the embed below:
That is, in every definition, a teaser, as the trailer was shot completely independently of the feature, which will begin production late this year, for a summer 2011 release.
Slashfilm has put together a pretty comprehensive list of everything we know about Super 8 so far, but at the end of the day it’s not much.
Say what you want about Abrams (but seriously, who could say something negative?), he sure knows how to keep a secret and build up excitement for something over a year away.
What are your thoughts on Super 8?
One Response to “J.J. Abrams’ SUPER 8 Trailer Now Online”
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Kiaran Says:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:23 amOh man, this looks like it could be awesome. I like the new Star Trek that JJ Abrams did and Steven Spielberg knows how to do aliens attack (War of the Worlds).
I’ll be keeping an eye on this one for sure.