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

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.

haha

Saying the "it's alive..." line is the biggest clue in the trailer is basically saying there are NO clues of significance in the trailer.

true dat

http://myspace.com/wellmissyourob

legit or false rob?

rob loves mstrkrft

hoos figure out slusho.jp for me

You know all the talk about "Slusho Zoom?"

I'm hearing some speculation that we should...zoom. Look closer at the images on the site itself?

Anybody capable of translating that text on wellmissyourob?

The directions re: the wallpapers include "Slusho Zoom!" as the final instruction. xpost to self

Here's that text from the MySpace:

http://a728.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/87/m_46b51003782c906817a382a431eb34ef.gif

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:

POSSIBLE SPOILER POSSIBLE SPOILER POSSIBLE SPOILER POSSIBLE SPOILER POSSIBLE SPOILER

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.

POSSIBLE SPOILERPOSSIBLE SPOILERPOSSIBLE SPOILERPOSSIBLE SPOILERPOSSIBLE SPOILER

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."

explains_everything.jpeg

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.