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

Masons are all like 90-year-old dudes who just need an excuse to get together and be frail in one another's company.

But they made Steve Gutenberg a star.

A 'nothing not already known but anyway' entry of info via the LA Times:

The Mystery: What's that trailer running in front of "Transformers" all about?

The Sleuths: The movie geeks of Aint It Cool News and 1-18-08.com.

The Facts: A shaky home movie shows a going-away party, then a mysterious creature decapitates the Statue of Liberty and makes New York explode. Its working title is "Cloverfield" and it comes out Jan. 18. Oh, and it's produced by "Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams.

The Theories: It's either a new Godzilla movie, an adaptation of the works of H.P. Lovecraft or a new "Voltron" movie. Two websites -- ethanhaaswasright.com and ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com -- were initially thought to be associated with the film, but Abrams himself has since disproved that, while also hinting at other websites still undiscovered.

Chance of Being Solved: Abrams has promised to reveal the movie's proper title very soon. Other than that, we'll to wait until January.

STATUE OF LIBERTY YOR HEAD A SPLODE: the movie

Anyway, this is obviously the Trek prequel.

Rob confronts the monster, sacrifices his emotion to destroy it, the remaining bits become the Klingons, Rob is Spock's grandfather and Rosario Dawson founds Starfleet. Easy.

Hmm, Matt Reeves:

Director:

4. "Felicity" (5 episodes, 1998-2001)
- The Declaration (2001) TV Episode
- The Slump (2000) TV Episode
- Felicity Was Here (1999) TV Episode
- The Last Stand (1998) TV Episode
- Pilot (1998) TV Episode

I take it back.

She was turned down for grad school in New York...

She wanted revenge.

FELICITY: THE MOVIE

am I the only one who watched that trailer and thought the movie was about NY being bombed to hell by another country?

So Albert Pike was a Satanist who communicated with Lucifer and received a vision that laid out plans for three world wars that would result in the downfall of Christianity, Zionism, Islam, and Atheism and the rise of a New World Order.

That Statue of Liberty was based on Isis, Egyptian goddess and wife of Osiris, and was given to the American Freemasons by the French Freemasons as a gift in honor of the Declaration of Independence. The 1-18-08 trailer premiered with Transformers for the July 4th weekend, and 1-18-08 = 18-1-8 = ISIS and the Statue is beheaded in the trailer.

The Woolworth Building is also show being destroyed. Unless you've forgotten, missiles were fired from its roof at the WTC on 9/11. The Freemasons were behind all of that too, as it's part of Pike's plans for World War 3.

ISIS and the Statue

Great tour.

lol

as it's part of Pike's plans for World War 3.

Christopher Pike being the original captain of the Enterprise in the pilot for Star Trek.

FULL CIRCLE

Presumably Pike's plans for WWIII were not told to anyone.

"Red herring" is the phrase I was groping for yesterday. The Masons=red herring. Abrams has already suggested there are gonna be a lot of film-related game sites in the next 6 months, maybe this is his way of saying "ay don't fuck around with the whois bullshit. wild goose chase."

film-related sites, yes, but considering that he refuted the significance of the Ethan Haas games, I don't know if there really will be any Cloverfield game sites, probably just more ambiguous puzzle pieces like Slusho.

xp - I hope so. Occult Freemasons and Illumnati = boooring.

it's not boring! i would have never given enough of a fuck to look into this, but wtf if it's a red herring or not, this is all probably more entertaining than the movie will be. kudos on your whois skillz BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

BIG WHOIS aka the puzzsolver

It's the sequel to 23.

24?

I am going to choose to believe Ned's theory

gff: that occult secret fraternal order stuff can be pleanty cool by itself, but having it spawn a gigantic city-destroying monster to ruin some dudes going-away party and shooting it with video cameras sounds borediculous. How would you accomplish all that exposition? I'm not watching some kids google Albert Pike and the Statue of Liberty for half an hour - I did that yesterday.

OMG I still need to see the Number 23. That shit looks hilarious. However, I doubt it will have the same impact now that I have turned 24.

pleanty?

I'm not watching some kids google Albert Pike and the Statue of Liberty for half an hour - I did that yesterday.

-- Kerm, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:33 PM

lol

From the photos on the 1-18-08 website, it looks like it'll be a real-time story.

Ooh, there's a 3rd photo on there now, too, that's new. I hope it is real-time or close to it, with none of the weird conspiracy-theory backstory that's being speculated on here. I like the idea of a disaster/monster movie that portrays the chaos and confusion that would actually be going on during a situation like that, not constantly letting the audience in on the truth that the characters can't see until the end or whatever.

Wasn't that movie supposed to be Spielberg/Cruise War of the Worlds?

Haha I almost used that as a point of comparison. That movie really kinda gave me nightmares, I hope this one does something similiar but more immersive and visceral.

Yeah, I mean, if this movie WAS about Cthulhu it'd basically be "A monster attacks NYC, and that monster is Cthulhu" judging by the trailer.

Besides, Cthulhu already attacked NYC and the Ghostbusters had to clean up.
YouTube here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xXX_HrgX0LQ

you sir are a hero.

a+ homie

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awesome *salutes*

is it me or is cartoon janine really foxy

Ernie Hudson, who had played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films, auditioned for the same role in The Real Ghostbusters, but ultimately the role was given to Arsenio Hall.[2]

ouch

that's one of those things that makes you say "hmmmm"

WINSTON: Cthulhu, He's bad right?
EGON: He makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine!

Oh MAN that cartoon is highly sampleable.

"Spellcasting takes a lot out of one!"

They misspelled WIERD TALES.

"I didn't know the library had started hosting rock concerts."

And here's the perfect band.

NECRONOMITRON
defender of the underverse

I'm also loving the instant Warriors homage -- Coney Island destination, forced to take the subway...

Okay, NOBODY mentioned the J. Michael Straczynski story editor credit at the end yet? All of a sudden the whole thing makes perfect sense.

Where is that credit?

Watch all the way to the end, it clearly pops up about five credits in the closing sequence.

Okay, NOBODY mentioned the J. Michael Straczynski story editor credit at the end yet? All of a sudden the whole thing makes perfect sense.

HI DERE WAHT IS AWESOME

A tsunami of internet hype months and months in advance before the inevitable cool down in buzz? Surely this is a tie-in not to Lost or Godzilla but Snakes on a Plane.

9NEWS Entertainment Reporter Kirk Montgomery learned exclusively on Friday from a secret source, who is on the set of the film every day, that it is not a sequel or a remake (which precludes King Kong or Godzilla). It is not Voltron or "Lost"-related.

The source told Kirk the entire film will be presented through a handheld video camera, as in the style of the trailer. All of the actors involved had not seen scripts when they signed on for the project and are under strict legal gag-orders not to discuss any aspect of the film.

The source says 50 percent of the $30 million budget for the film is devoted to special effects.

The official Web site is www.1-18-08.com, but the source tells Kirk that apparently a Japanese-style Web site, www.slusho.jp, has lots of clues yet undiscovered by the rabid fans who have been scouring the Internet for hints.

The source told Kirk the biggest clue of the trailer is in the line: "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge."

The source also says the sound the "creature" makes is another big clue. He says the creature is an organic, living thing.

GIANT POKEMON DESTROYS NYC.