J.J. Abrams directing untitled Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project in NYC movie?

surely reads "you are a dweeb fuck off"

I love how the top commenter is a total stickler for realism:

"JT.

Jul 17 2007 2:42P

i'll be there... but i thought the party was on the 17th?"

btw guys if you haven't seen it yet here's the trailer.

mirror image? y slash n

http://xf4.xanga.com/f5ad855542032136149336/t99830791.bmp

There are a couple of kanji I don't recognize, but one of them means "bug" or "insect".

SuperBee

On 01-18-08 New York gets buzzed!

I think slusho.jp history might be an origin story. at least in terms of "lol it from DA SEA"

So apparently they were doing some filming at Coney Island.

A guy @ Coney Island that authorized filming (and chose to remain unnamed) gave the press what seems to be some pretty crucial plotting stuff, but its just as likely its a line he was fed by producers. For the sake of not-spoiling-the-game in case its true, encased in spoiler tags:

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Dude says that the majority of the film is in "flashback" form. The sequences being filmed at Coney Island will be events that take place the morning/afternoon before an alien (!) shows up and wipes out all of New York.

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Yay! It IS Cthulhu!

The trailer makes it seem like none of it will be in flashback.

The fact that the myspace background image is lifted from http://www.ywca.or.jp/english/japan.gif makes me think it's a fake.

yeah maybe this person thinks any piece of fiction telling a story in past tense is a 'flashback.' or maybe (I hope not) there'll be some lame bookend bit where some survivor finds the camera and plays back the recording.

there'll be some lame bookend bit where some survivor finds the camera and plays back the recording.

this cringeworthy thing has also been suggested as a possibility.

And then the survivor turns to the rest of the cast of Lost and says, "So that's why I went on vacation."

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http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4494/martialrb0.png

iszat an army guy?

So it would seem that the title is "Monstrous":

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2007/07/jj_abrams_cloverfield_mystery_solved.html

Cloverfield sounds better.

Behemoth is the primal unconquerable monster of the land, as Leviathan is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster of the sky.

This just makes me excited about the next Mastodon album.

haha

I'm not really ready to take "bleary comic book poster submitted to teh internet" as evidence of anything.

Shit I'd been discounting all that Leviathan/Ziz/Behemoth shit cause it seemed...too fanboy-driven?

But then I forget that Abrams' stock in trade is introducing wacky shit (that Nostradamus/DaVinci mythos, a monster on an island) into kinda-realist premises (government agent tries to live life, vacationers crash).

Abrams is Jewish. All of a sudden this is seeming plausible. I will be kinda upset if this guy "got it" with these meager clues and I was sitting here waiting on more scraps.

considering they're hiding the monster, I kind of think even if someone did figure it out, they'd immediately change what the monster is.

something's probably going to go down at Comic Con on Thursday.

A monster kills a bunch of fanboys? Dare I dream?

maybe its rimbaldi

http://bristol.indymedia.org/attachments/jan2006/300px-Statue_of_liberty_in_planet_of_the_apes.jpg

THIS IMAGE HAS SOLVED TEH MYSTERY IT ARE PLANET OF TEH APES PREQUEL.

American remake of "The Host" k thx what do I win?

...you know, that might not be so off an idea.

considering they're hiding the monster, I kind of think even if someone did figure it out, they'd immediately change what the monster is.

something's probably going to go down at Comic Con on Thursday.

-- jessie monster, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:50 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

wait, you think that a movie in the middle of production would just up and change a huge part of the movie the moment that someone on the internet figured out what it was going to be? or that they'd even be able to do such a thing? for someone named jessie monster you don't know shit about monsters.

they're in the middle of production? they're still casting.

Am I the only one who thinks it would be awesome if on 1-18-08, the movie released is a buddy comedy, and Abrams was just fucking with all of us?

no, that would be awesome.

J. J. Abrams presents "Dumberer and Dumbererer"?

maybe it is a Honey I Blew Up the Kids remake

THAT WOULD BE SWEET

He's insisted that it's not a remake of or sequel to anything.

That was directed at The Host comment, not the Honey I Blew Up the Kids comment.

I saw Honey I Blew Up the Kids in the theatre. I remember my favorite part was the animated title credits.

they're in the middle of production? they're still casting.

-- jessie monster, Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:17 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

??? -- several cast members have been confirmed already, there have been several sightings and rumors of Slusho trucks in LA and New York (even some video footage surfaced recently), not to mention the fact that this thing comes out in less than 6 months and they already had enough footage to release a trailer weeks ago, wtf are you talking about.

uh, you win?

haha sorry if i came off all apoplectic there, i just have no idea where you got the "still casting" thing from

read an article today where some Alias dude said he was just cast. my general point on the changing the monster bit (which maybe isn't HORRIBLY dumb if they haven't done the CGI unless it's a dude in a suite--WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME--but I am not known for undumbness) was more that there's no way in hell they're going to let some dude figure out what it is 6 months before release. talk about buzzkill.

yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they're still casting some supporting roles, but it sounds like production's been in full gear for a while now. anyway, if the monster is some mythological/Biblical thing, who cares if someone susses that out early, that wouldn't really tell us much about the movie at all. what would really spoil things if someone leaked what it looked like or the ending or some major plot development.

haha ok what's the hint in the news about said Alias dude being cast:

Former "Alias" and current "Heroes" star Greg Grunberg tells TV Guide that he'll be appearing in J.J. Abrams' secret movie 1-18-08.

One movie that Abrams is casting Grunberg in is the buzzerific disaster flick known only by its myriad working titles (i.e., Cloverfield, 1-18-08, Slusho). "It'll probably be something where no one will be able to tell it's me," he said. "As you know, J.J. calls me his good-luck charm, so he's got to put me in there somewhere. I actually went to the set the other night, and it was really exciting and cool. The budget is not astronomical. But they're doing incredible things."

"no one will be able to tell it's me" = lol it IS gonna be a guy in a monster suit!

haaaaa good catch

Cue Godzilla riff:

"Duh-nuh-DUH-NUH!"

Lost was an original idea within a familiar genre (stranded on a desert isle). There's no reason to think that this isn't the same concept: an original story within the monster-movie genre.

A guy in a MOTION-CAPTURE suit oh wait.

yeah that's been my assumption all along, too, Eazy