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

dude you are a puzzle fiend

etc etc the beginning is the end

hint: waste of time

entertaining waste at least?

haha has anyone else noticed the links between this movie and the mediocre CBS sitcom "The Class" that was cancelled a few months ago?

on some movie news site's story about it (maybe cinematical?), a commenter pointed out that one of the girls in the trailer, also the face on the left on the 1-18-08.com photo, resembles Lizzy Caplan, the goth chick from <i>Mean Girls</i> who was also on "The Class." and the name of Jason Ritter's character on "The Class" was ETHAN HAAS. I don't think J.J. Abrams had anything to do with "The Class," but considering all his TV connections and the fact that the supposed director of this movie directed episodes of "Felicity," it's possible there's some weird link.

THE CLASS: THE MOVIE
IN THEATRES 1-18-08

confirmation that Caplan is in the movie here, and some more hints/info:
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=10118
I totally have a crush on her and the only reason I felt the slightest bit bad about "The Class" getting cancelled was that she didn't seem to have any other major projects on the horizon, so I think this is cool news.

I did see that Ritter's character was Haas, didn't catch the Lizzy Caplan bit.

Not to get all Morbs and shit, but what the fuck is wrong with you people?

;_;

i really should know better

The lengths I will go to based on rumors of a Voltron movie.

we're all gonna look like fools when this turns out to be just some more shit about that Nine Inch Nails album.

Hahaha

I would consider NIN much more deserving of this hype than a fucking Voltron movie.

Now if it was about Lincoln Logs or Erector Set, that would be completely different.

Are you telling me you will not ride for the Defender of the Universe?

What evidence is there that it's fucking Voltron? Doesn't it seem too soon after the Transformers?

If you mean Voltron, Hoos, I won't even ride a shetland pony for that folding robot toy bullshit.

it's not Voltron or Godzilla, those were just early theories when people were grasping at straws trying to figure out what this is.

^ si

but hoos does not stand for voltron slander

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/8111/im4upeaches1uq7.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6184/im4upeaches1qu3.jpg

Sorry about the shit quality. Scanner's busted, so I had to use a digicam.

if it's really Cthulhu, I am already going http://www.hauntingmids.com/forum/Smileys/default/ohnoessmiley.gif

yeah, read on aintitcool that it was lovecraft. i don't believe it.

looks like rose byrne on the left, to me

yeah, read on aintitcool that it was lovecraft. i don't believe

hinted at on ...iswrong as well

there's a walkthrough of the ethan haas site if anyone cares
spoilers, obv:
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2007/07/ethan_haas_was_right.php

How proud should I be that I solved the peg jumping game on the first try? Does that make me smart or something?

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/07/06/jj-abrams-finally-speaks%20-up-about-cloverfield/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/

yay! Statue of Liberty head! yay!

apparently the ethan haas site has nothing to do with jj abrams or the film

I was really confused about that. The Abrams thing is clearly a monster movie, and the Ethan Haas thing is some kind of none-too-imaginative Terminator rip-off.

ok, you know what? Reading AICN for more than 20 minutes? Depressing as shit.

the key is to avoid all talkback and reviews

The key is to avoid AICN!

otoh, I god a good lol at the fact that Harry didn't like the Transformers movie... because the subtle nuances of the personalities of the robots weren't brought out enough.

Funny to read all the analysis of the 1-18-08 photos, when they seem to be simple and clear: if the movie's hook is camcorder realism, this are just "before" and "after" stills. Not much to decode in them.

I'm kinda relieved that those puzzle websites supposedly have nothing to do with the movie, it all seemed kind of lame, even though it blows a hole in the THE CLASS: THE MOVIE theory I was all into. Still, makes me wonder how/why those websites popped up and what they're about.

The problem with that one picture on 1-18-08.com is that it's way too close to the iconic Blair Witch Project scene with the camera angled up the girl's nose, that's the one comparison they should be working to avoid as much as possible.

how did ppl decide they were connected in the first place? several articles mentioned the trailer and the websites together but I didn't quite get where the link between the two came from.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/07/09/jj-abrams-says-ethan-haas-has-nothing-to-do-with-cloverfield/

the slusho stuff at the end is kind of weird? a lot of people make fake "in-show/movie" sites these days though.

the people I know who are working on this movie won't tell me anything beyond that its a monster film - BAH

if its Lovecraft I kinda can't see how it will be anything other than completely shitty - Lovecraft in general cannot be translated to film effectively.

Interesitng how everyone seems to assume it's based on something else. Isn't it possible that the guy who came up with Lost and Felicity and a guy who wrote for those shows have come up with an original screenplay?

Yeah, and it just plain doesn't make any sense to build this much secrecy and ambiguity around a project if it's actually a pre-existing franchise from previous TV shows or movies.

Clearly this is Snakes on a Plane II: The Revenge.

BUT it would be a good way to prevent six months' worth of fanboy naysaying if it involves a really beloved/cult franchise (like Voltron or Cthulhu). Just playing devil's advocate, though. There's some argument that it's actually for a tabletop RPG.

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venture capital?? for a table top rpg??

a really beloved/cult franchise (like Voltron or Cthulhu)

but afaik there are really no Cthulhu fanboys as such... heck, afaik the "Cthulhu mythos" was never really elaborated very far in Lovecraft and generally existed on the fringes. Mike Mignola's version is probably the most clear and consistent.

clearly you are not that into cthulhu.

no way it's that good

This was fun enough. Not as good as 10CL by a stretch though.

So the series is just going to be bottom of the Black List scripts with some sort of Cloverfield reference spliced in? Like Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood movies?

It'll still be more consistent than whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is.

This is a dud but the last three seconds are fun

whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is

1) Spend the budget on design
2) Cobble a plot together on the morning you start shooting
3) ?????
4) Profit

this was really really bad and i don't understand why they did it

i mean, not fun bad, just boring terribly acted embarrassingly written nonsensical bad

OK I read a little bit more about this, sounds like it was a bad movie they knew came out bad and they thought they could resuscitate it commercially by slapping a coat of cloverfield on it?

It could be, but I doubt it? Like 10CL there's a plot that could be divorced from the original film completely, but there are a lot more references in this one. They could have grafted it in, but they say "Cloverfield" too much for it to be coincidence, unless there was some reshooting/dialogue dubbing

In a live Facebook Q&A on Wednesday, February 8th, The Cloverfield Paradox producer J.J. Abrams answered some questions about the film, which was abruptly released to Netflix immediately after the 2018 Super Bowl, to near-universal negative critical response. The tone of the live panel was positive and upbeat, but the responses may have inadvertently revealed why Cloverfield Paradox feels so fractured. Among other things, Abrams says the film was already shooting when he and the filmmakers figured out how to make it into a Cloverfield movie.

“Originally, it was written by Oren Uziel, who wrote a draft that was its own thing, and was around for a while,” Abrams said. When his production company, Bad Robot, acquired the script, “we started to think, ‘What are ways that this might fit into the world?’ But when we started shooting the movie, it was still something we were thinking about. Because the idea for the Cloverfield series was not so much that it be this narrative throughline, but more that they be these really fun sort of thrill rides. Like, if you imagine an amusement park, that’s a Cloverfield amusement park, and every ride has a different purpose, but they all connect in some way or another.”

“While we were shooting, we were making adjustments,” Abrams said. “This was a movie that went through many different iterations as it went along.” He added that the film’s Earth scenes were only built out after test viewers insisted on knowing what was happening on the planet during the story, which otherwise takes place on a space station.

I mean I totally like the concept that there are all these different movies, each representing its own genre, and each kind of loosely Cloverfield-branded; it's just that this movie is a very crappy product and I don't understand why Abrams would want to incorporate it into the brand.

The Earth scenes, in particular. WHO CARES? There is a generic "child in peril" and the plot of this part is... the husband tells somebody to call her parents? And then the resolution of the suspense is .... somebody calls her parents?

This was, for instance, much more amateurishly acted and scripted than a typical second-tier SyFy show that no one watches or takes notice of.

It seemed like a really odd fit and *possibly* answered too many questions through expository dialogue and inserted earth footage outside of the space station. The main problem in the movie is a completely different science fiction plot, the connection to the series is literally staged as a side effect ("the cloverfield effect"!)

The heart of the connective glue being a tv interview with Donal Logue, who seems to have filmed his entire scientific gibberish spiel in an actual remote location, was definitely some prime cheap syfy channel material

Figures that the worst one would be the one that has the origin story tho

there is absolutely no reason to ever have one, which means Abrams was definitely going to do it and fuck it up

I just rewatched Cloverfield today. I am very happy that most of this thread is about what douches the characters were. They should've named the movie "Rob...Rob! ROB!"

that's my name so every original friend in the world that I saw that trailer with kept going "LOL IT'S ABOUT U NEANER"