Probably too good to be true - although I can imagine a Lovecraft story set in a place called Cloverfield - but it would settle the question of “Who will be eaten first?”
Well, it’s fun moving the pictures around at http://www.1-18-08.com/. So, can we expect to just be jerked around with this stuff for months?
I understand the marketing – I’d just like to, for once, see something really cool without having it hyped endlessly beforehand.
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The trailer linked to up-thread has been removed. Here’s another copy.
http://www.trailerspy.com/2007/07/05/transformers-comes-with-a-mystery-trailer/
Finally, has anyone else made it all the way through the puzzles at http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com yet? At the end it asks for an e-mail address and says more information will be available on August 1st.
I assumed it was a Godzilla movie, since the people at the party were talking about Japan, and whatever was attacking the city was approaching from the ocean.
Of course, given the failure of the last Godzilla movie and the mediocre success of the King Kong remake, I have trouble seeing anyone bank-rolling another “big monster eats NY” film.
On the other other hand, what the hell else throws the flaming head of the Statue of Liberty across the island of Manhattan that isn’t some variant of “Giant city eating monster”
I bet it’s a story about a giant frikkin’ statue that’s missing a four toed foot and is pretty pissed about it.
Interesting. At the http://www.1-18-08.com/ website, you can move the pictures around.
But if you leave them alone, they move themselves.
I suppose that the line “I saw it, it’s alive, it’s huge!” from the trailer precludes the idea that the Giant Killer Something is some sort of “Bad Robot”, eh?
Studios don’t usually open blockbuster movies in January, for what that’s worth. Also, it would be unusual for a major motion picture with big stars and special effects not to be on the collective radar six months before it is scheduled to open.
There’s now an official, clean version of the trailer out. So if you don’t want to see Transformers (I know, that’s a huge stretch) then you can see a good copy with decent sound now.
Here’s the IMDB page for it:
WAG, English remake of The Host ?
Hmmmmm . . .
There’s a really cool Los Angeles independent movie theater, The New Beverly, that runs double features. They play classic films, both American and foreign, going all the way back to the silent era.
They also show second run films, films just a year or two old. Foreign films getting the American remake treatment commonly show up at The New Beverly in anticipation of the American remake- so people can feel cool going to see the American film then come out saying, “It was o.k., but the original Korean/Indian/French/Argentine version was way cooler.”
Well, looking at The New Beverly calendar (linked above), they are currently showing The Host as part of a double feature with Godzilla- conspiciously scheduled the week after the Transformers premiere (and, yes, this theater is run by guys who are very much in the know!).
I’m willing to lay money down that jackdavinci has hit the nail right smack on the friggin head.
J.J. Abrams wrote Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News. Here is what he said.