Updated with the official HD trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHzng8fxLs
A long time ago, in 2007 to be exact, Transformers was released. I remember sitting in that theater, and before the movie started, being treated to one hell of an intriguing, mysterious trailer for a secretive film. The footage showed a group of partyers rushing outside after a tremendous earthquake and a fiery explosion, only to be met by a city in chaos and the Statue of Liberty's head being tossed down the street. It ended with only a date, 1-18-08. The trailer was met with great interest, confusion, and debate. Was it a new Godzilla film? Was it Voltron? Answer was, none of the above. It was actually a trailer for a completely new American monster film named Cloverfield, and boy was it great. I was one of the many who took part in the massive viral campaign for the film, which included several websites, passwords, and lots and lots of sleuthing around as we tried to piece together the individual pieces of the puzzle. Unfortunately, no answers were really given and the film itself only paid a few very tiny nods towards the numerous info and questions the campaign had raised.
Lack of any real concrete answers aside (What was that monster? Where did it come from? Is it still alive after the end of the film? Was it created, or a natural undiscovered creature? What role did Slusho have to play in all this? Could Rob and Beth possibly have survived the end of the film?), I still thought the film was pretty great, and made for quite a fun ride (I still associate Sephora with the film due to it being a location during one of the more hectic scenes). I, like many others, wanted a sequel very badly. Now, 8 years later (ironic, considering 08 played a key part in the original trailer) we may be getting a sequel....or maybe not. Either way, it stars John motherfucking Goodman and that's more than enough for me to sign myself up.
The first word we see of the title is Cloverfield, and indeed we linger on that word for a good few seconds. The font is also that classic Cloverfield font. Surely this was intentional. JJ Abrams had this to say: “The idea came up a long time ago during production. We wanted to make it a blood relative of Cloverfield. The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible.” So....maybe this won't be a direct sequel to Cloverfield, but more like a cousin, kind of like a weird spin-off. Will we see the monster from Cloverfield? Will there be some kind of recognition of the events seen in Cloverfield? Will this film deal with the after-effects of the events of Cloverfield? Will this film have it's own unique monster, or will it not feature any monsters at all and instead just take place in the same universe as Cloverfield? Is Cloverfield going to be a title used for a new series of loosely connected anthology films? Already so many questions.
The apparent plot revolves around a young woman played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who is in some sort of car crash. A doomsday prepper played by Goodman rescues her and holds her against her will in a cellar along with John Gallagher Jr. Winstead offers more plot details: “He ( John Goodman's character) tells me that basically the world is over outside because there’s been a nuclear fall-out. It does have similarity to Faults (another film Winstead recently starred in), in some ways, because you don’t know who’s telling the truth or who to believe. There’s a lot of, who’s manipulating who, and all of that. Tonally, it’s very different, but it has some of those same themes.”
Already this is sounding very different, but somewhat similar to Cloverfield. All I know for sure is that there is a film that is related to Cloverfield in some way, being released March 16th of this year (JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY) and it stars three phenomenal actors. I CAN'T FRIGGIN WAIT!!! Let's just hope there's some sort of viral campaign to go along with this film. I am more than ready to put my sluethin' cap back on, it's been gathering dust on my shelf for far too long.
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