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Untitled JJ Abrams Movie
RobbieOC:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 09 Jul 2007, 21:23 ---Thanks Robbie, Gaiman is one of my favourite authors, reckon that's where I'll start... And TheFuriousWombat, yeah, it looks really cool regardless of wether Cthulhu is in the movie or not, I'm definetely going to see it.
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This is from wikipedia:
--- Quote ---Neil Gaiman in his short story collection Smoke and Mirrors included two stories connected with the Cthulhu universe: "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" in which a man shares a pint with two acolytes of Cthulhu, and "Only the End of the World Again", set in Lovecraft's imaginary town of Innsmouth, where a werewolf private detective prevents the awakening of the Great Old Ones. In his short story collection Fragile Things, the opening story, "A Study In Emerald", is a Sherlock Holmes story set in a universe where the Great Old Ones control the world.
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Elementary, my dear Mind Flayer!
I'll be honest. When I saw the Bad Robot logo at the beginning, I immediately thought this was a Lost tie-in. I'm still not completely convinced it isn't. :roll:
fish across face:
Hey, um, JJ Abrams is just the producer on this...
Here's the TV history of the writer, who's never written a movie before:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1206844/
Apparently Buffy fans love him?
Here's the history of the director, who's directed one movie (a romantic comedy called The Pallbearer which starred Ross from Friends and Gwyneth Paltrow):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716257/
Trailer looks OK.
Edit: sorry, stuffed up one of the URLs somehow.
xero:
My friend Mike and I are serious fans of Lost. While I prefer to take a more Cartesian approach to analyzing the show (ie taking what we think we know, then eliminating everything that's based on assumptions and speculation, and then using Occam's Razor to come up with a unified theory), Mike likes to peruse the internet for the latest gossip and speculation on anything even remotely related. The downside to his method is that there's a lot of white noise in his analysis; he gets all the intelligent theories along with all the crazy and out-there ones, and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. The upside is that he gets access to other people's secondhand information "directly" from the source. Usually he takes what he reads, forms a conclusion (or a set of probable conclusions) and then presents it to me, and I try to make sense of it in relation to what I already "know" about the show. Occasionally that'll pique my interest and I'll do my own online research. I think I'm better at it than he is. Shhh.
Anyway, Mike's picking up a lot of buzz about this JJ Abrams project. What we "know" so far: the production codename for the movie is "Cloverfield" (though rumor is that the codename has now switched to "Slusho"). There's no indication that this will be the final title, or even that it has any relevance to the subject of the film. There's a dearth of official information about the movie, but we know it's not Abram's rendition of Star Trek because "Cloverfield" is slated for a January '08 release, while Star Trek is set for December '08. There was a website that indicated that the film would end up being called "The Parasite" (with that being the name of the monster as well), but it seems that website was a hoax. Supposedly Abrams has said through some official channel that he's set up some viral promotional websites. So far the only one discovered and confirmed is 1-18-08.com, according to Abrams himself (by way of Ain't It Cool News, an admittedly questionable source).
Speculation so far has run the gamut from a Lost tie-in, to Godzilla sequel, to Cthulhu license, to Voltron remake. Voltron was my first guess when I saw the trailer in theaters (it made sense initially, given the Transformers connection), but by the end of the trailer I knew that wasn't it. I haven't seen anything to justify the Cthulhu theory (aside from Lovecraftian themes on some websites that seemed like official viral tie-ins, but have reportedly been debunked as hoaxes), and I believe the Godzilla possibility has been debunked with the revelation that the rights to a new Godzilla film are tied up for the foreseeable future. We'll see what develops. I'm sure it'll be confusing, whatever it is.
Theplanman:
Well, the ultimate geek fantasy is that it does in fact tie into Lost, (the movie comes out in January, which is when the next season of Lost starts) but I wouldn't get your hopes up, xero. (The upside of being a pessimist is that you are always either right, or pleasantly suprised)
There was something on digg that made reference to those reportedly hoax sites, saying it sounds like a "gods vs aliens" movie. In which case, that would kick untold amounts of ass.
xero:
Oh crap, I forgot to debunk the Lost tie-in possibility. At the moment I can't remember why, but I'm fairly certain this movie doesn't relate to Lost at all.
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