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The "Cloverfield" project, for lack of a real name, has gotten a lot of buzz. Due to all the internet speculation and supposed Alternate Reality Game sites, such as slusho.jp, ethanhaaswasright.com, and so many more, I thought all that could use its own thread. I'm going to guess that this thread will use a lot of spoiler tags.

When I went to slusho.jp,

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the History gave a summary of Slusho's history that hinted at some sort of sea monster. I think that'd be awesome.

Also, I heard that, at the Paramount panel at Comic-Con, some Cloverfield-related things will be released, such as the official name and perhaps a clip.

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It's another Dharma project!

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I predict that everyone will be disappointed. I just don't get all the buzz, especially after seeing the trailer. Um...it's decent?

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This is totally a gay furry film!

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Pffft. Dark Tower will be much more interesting.

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It'll probably be the FSM™ from Lost.

Lookin forward to it, last giant monster film I saw was Kong Kong and that was disappointing.

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Is this the thing where it looks like Lavos attacks NYC?

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That looks a lot like what happens in the trailer, actually.

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

Also, the site  www.1-18-08.com  is linked to the movie, as is  www.slusho.jp . Another site that's caused a stir was  abz3293.com  due to it's references to certain things in the trailer and slusho.jp.

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One of the guys in the trailer sounds like he says "I saw it... it's a lion, it's huge!", but its most likely "I saw it... it's alive..."
There's only so many cool creatures that would make that noise, and assuming it threw the Statue of Liberty head it would most likely need opposable thumbs... 

GIANT. FREAKIN. HIPPO MONKEY!! 

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Man, i don't have the energy for this The Lost Experience was too draining.

Just give me all the answers already!

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I hope the lion or whatever rips Lizzy Caplan's clothes off. Best movie ever.

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Somebody play the roaring sound at double speed and possibly backwards, please.

The trailer is very hype-tastic, I'll give them that much.

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are you people insane its so obvious what the movies about. POWER RANGERS! i mean the young adults the calls for jason and only a zord can cause such damage. lol ok im joking but this reall does feel like way to much hype and it might end up just being something as dumb as power rangers or just godzilla. mainly because of the japan references in the trailer

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 http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33332

 

The film starts with a rescue crew cleaning up after the entire incident, and one of them finds a camera. They rewind the tape, press play... and the playback is the movie that unfolds.

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The fact that the creature is nicknamed “the Parasite” by those working on the film.

Please OH PLEASE let it be Lavos.

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Mystery solved?

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I hope not. Oy vey.

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I would only approve if either a) Mel Brooks or b) Dr. Zoidberg were somehow involved.

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The whole movie is a dream sequence.  And then one of the characters turns out to be someone who you didn't expect them to be.  The End.

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Here's a different angled poster that was released:


Supposedly, here's the story on how the poster posted earlier was leaked (from Cloverfield/Parasite Blogspace:
 

Someone on the IMDB board, in response to my hi-res images, stated that they know the vendor selling the "stolen" image for the movie and has already been contacted by Paramount.

The name of the person who is selling the one sheet pictured by our fellow poster here on IMDB is Luanna Jo Brown. I happen to know this woman. She has a big booth at the Frank and Son's show and sells movie posters and bootleg movies. She lives in Victorville, CA and Paramount has already been contacted regarding this breach and this stupid lady just spoiled the big announcement of the film's title that Paramount was saving for the Comic Con for all us fans. Plus -- she will be actually trying to SELL THESE STOLEN MOVIE One Sheets from Paramount while she is at the Con. I hope karma is kind to her. Cause Paramount won't be!!!!

Whether this is true or not, it hasn't seemed to phase anyone very much. Arguments against the poster state that the Vendor "Luanna Jo Brown" ruined the game by revealing the super-secret title days before JJ Abrams' big announcement at Comic-Con. As far as I'm concerned, we don't know that this is a true story and so what if the title is Monstrous? We still don't know what the monster is or why it's so pissed.

And here's a comment on that...
 

What a strange world this is.

1. How does some crazy-ass fat lady get access to top-secret Paramount publicity materials?

2. Why isn't her Twinkie-sized ass in the slammer by now?

3. I wonder if "Monstrous" is really the title. Why go to all the bother of concealing/revealing the title if it's so freakin' generic?

4. Any chance "Monstrous" is a red herring or working title? (Probably not, given the high production values of the poster.)

5. If "Monstrous" is really the title, I don't think it would have gotten a really huge reaction even if the name hadn't leaked. There would have been a palpable air of disappointment when they announced the title. "Revenge of the Sith" it ain't.

6. I still can't get over the poster-stealing cow. What a world.

The poster I posted was released by Paramount at their Comic-Con panel today. Either they had cold feet on "Monstrous" or they aren't releasing it yet.

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Please, Abrams knows the only thing nerds love more than a big reveal is a spoiler to a big reveal.  I declare uberhype on that.

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I wrekon the lady is fake... Much like Rachel Blake/Persephone.

All the more hype to it! Looks pretty cool.

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Maybe it's an Osama Bin Laden movie? He's pretty tall, right?

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Abrams at Comic-Con:
 

“I wanted a monster movies, and had taken my son to Japan, and there were all these Godzilla dolls everywhere.” *cheers from the audience* “However, I decided we needed our own monster. We’re not showing any footage, but we’re almost done shooting, and I think you’ll love it. We aren’t revealing a title today.” *boos from the audience* “What would you think if we called it Monstruous?” *Puzzled reaction from crowd.* “Anyhow, we’ll see. We have a new poster out, and you’ll be getting that today. I can’t wait for you to see this.. Bye!

Also, the "Monstrous" poster is a tagline. They also released some with other taglines, like "Terrifying" and "Furious".

Now, coming from what Abrams said at Comic-Con, I think there are two monsters. He said that "we needed our own monster" when refering to Godzilla. In those movies, Godzilla is the "good" and loved monster that fights Mothra or whoever. In the poster, you see there's already destruction but also a water trail. What I think is one monster came and was destroying New York, and then the "good" monster is in the water, coming to save the day.

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The Ethan Haas and other sites have nothing to do with the movie, JJ Abrahms sez.
i_c_weiner was barking up the wrong internets.     

New title rumour: "Overnight".
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I think the Monstrous title will be the tagline too.

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Yeah, I've seen one which says "Furious"....

EDIT:  I personally don't really care what the movie is called, as long as it's good.

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If it's Fast & The Furious: Monster Takes New York. I'll kill each Hollywood hack. I can just see it now, a montage of Godzilla buying clothes to the song Puttin On The Ritz while some Vin Diesl wannabe is screaming at some Asian guy.

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I found out Ethan Haas wasn't related after I had made the thread.


Overnight sounds lame. It's not exactly a name to start a monster movie franchise with. Oddly, I wouldn't mind a nameless movie or a series of films with dates as their titles. "Where will you be on 1-18-08?" seems like a catchy slogan. The dates as titles could get really lame really fast though.

[Edit] Currently, Paramount and Apple Trailers list the film as "01-18-08".

Some make-up artist supposedly leaked parts of dialogue from the movie.

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From the 1-18-08News.com

Dear Brad,

My name is Betty Barsuglia. I was working in the make-up department for 1-18-08. i say was because apparently I was thought to disobey my “leaking” release and after tonight have been suspended from being on set when actual shooting is occurring. I am in a bit of rage right now. I was on set without identification tonight near central park south. This is where they were shooting..and was suspended. I am also a huge fan of this movie and although I work on it they they don’t tell crap to anybody. I am recently getting started in the business and was happy to get the job. Tonight though I was lucky enough to hear dialogue and although i have been on set 2 times before the dialogue was rather useless. Last time I brought my recorder and thats why i think this time they figured i was tattling. Well now I am. you can take this info however you’d like but below is dialogue from 1-18-08 and it seems very crucial to the plot. I am still amazed but also still pissed. i will probably regret this in the morning. Hope this helps.

This is what I recorded tonight at round 11:00pm.

Rob: Look it is not the simple.Look this guy who was handling the American account,the Englishmen Algar Macy for Mr. Akira Masa. supposedly went on some sort of expedition to find a way to produce it here. Like some hands on **** to make it nice and catchy. And after 2 days sailing out they didn’t hear from him. Nothing. They sent coast guard and these stupid *******s found nothing.

Jason: **** that man what does that have to do with anything?

Rob: Cause he didn’t disappear Jason. They found the boat on the coast of Hangzhou in China with claw marks in it. ****ing claw marks. And and and…thats why I was so late to the party tonight. They told me a few days ago he was fine and today-

Beth: Today what?!

-they begin to push argue and almost fight

Rob: Stopppp let me finish! Today I met with Mr. Masa. He told me it was this thing. they’ve looked into it for years. Supposedly it was this squid, giant squid that was larger than anything they’ve seen. They detected it on radar in england, and most recently in the Bering sea, and here, everywhere, but people kept pushing this thing off. I didn’t really understand him but it’s something with the genes.Its-

Jason: Its what, What Robby. ****ing Godzilla. Sum nuclear lizard-squid that killed Jamie.

Rob: No its worse than that. Has something to do with metagenomics and microbial organisms. Instead of separating these strains of bacteria linked to these hosts. Because the pressure was so intense, that of like some ****ing black hole. So it linked to these giant squids causing mutations and refinements in DNA amplifications.

Jason: This thing looks nothing like some big ****ing squid. Those tentacles ripped into that building like it was some ****ing pudding pop, besides that though-

Rob: I know. The claws, The head. It especially wasn’t dumb.Thats why I think it hosted on something else. Maybe binded with something that we thought was extinct or just something else. Before I left he let me know that all that Bermuda Triangle ****. Everything you’ve read about, Leviathan, Kraken, Atlantis, even that book we read in Mrs. Harper’s class in high school. All that **** was because of this thing. Its the reasons all these people disappeared. Its the reason all around the world its formed myths about the different events that couldn’t be explained. I would have never believed it and now its-

They cut and began to organize rubbled near the south side of the park near 59th street.

So I guess if it has that type of language it´s gonna be rated R

It seems bogus. The whole mutated squid with claws that brings doom sounds like Cthulhu to me. If this is real, the "Everything you’ve read about, Leviathan, Kraken, Atlantis, even that book we read in Mrs. Harper’s class in high school" supports the Cthulhu theory as well. Cthulhu was a character in Lovecraft books. If this is real, perhaps the book mentioned is "The Call of Cthulhu".

And going back to the title, if this thing is true, "The Call of Cthulhu" or simply "The Call" aren't too bad of names.

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I bet the monster is Trogdor.

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It could be a sequel to Manos and the monster is Torgo...

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Originally posted by Wooter:
I bet the monster is Trogdor.

Hmm...clear signs of burnination, one beefy claw mark on the SOL Statue of Liberty, apparent coming at night...could be Trogdor.

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Tentacles and claws?

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That's a really low quality picture.  You should be ashamed. 

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A reasonable approximation?

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I hate spoofs. "Hey, let's steal someone's idea and do something with it!"
Same goes for assholes who do impressions of other people's impressions.
Assholes.

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Empire's hi-quality 2nd trailer

Click the "trailer breakdown" there are more clues and questions raised by the trailer.

Also, if you watch the trailer, one of the Army guys has his face pixellated out, I wonder why that is?

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Nice try Melll.

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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
   
Nice try Melll.

 

The "breakdown" is quite interesting, and at least has a still of (what appears to be part of) the creature itself...

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Not sure if this is real...

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Wooter: That's fan art.

The new trailer is the shit. The original teaser pulled me into the movie. I likely wouldn't be as interested in the movie if it wasn't for the original teaser. For somebody like me who's been following this since Transformers, this trailer is a nice treat. It's amazing how the CG and real footage are blended so well together.

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Aw, I liked the way the giant whale monster looked.