As you settle into your seat with your snacks and drink to watch “Iron Man 2” this weekend, expect a lot of trailers. We’ll bring you details on how the number of trailers before movies is getting greater on this week’s Slice of SciFi.
But before that, we can tell you that one of the trailers that is attached to the movie is a new project from producer J.J. Abrams.
The film—which has yet to be shot—will apparently not be directed by Abrams himself, although he was reportedly behind the camera for the trailer. It is also not likely that this is his collaboration with Steven Spielberg, news of which broke last week. So what is it? Well, right now it is going under the title Super 8, and Hitfix is hearing rumors that it could possibly be a sequel—or at least related somehow—to Cloverfield.
As you might recall, an untitled trailer for that Abrams-produced monster movie was launched in front of Transformers in the summer of 2007, kicking off an innovative viral marketing campaign that kept the web buzzing and the hype building for months leading up to its January 2008 release. Whatever you thought of the final product, the run-up to Cloverfield’s release was full of the kind of speculation and excitement that comes along all too rarely these days for movies. The flick ended up being a relatively modest hit, but despite on-and-off talk about a sequel, Bad Robot has never officially confirmed one.
Just to add to the mystery, Pajiba reported last November that Bad Robot was secretly developing a movie called 500 Rads (a rad is an “absorbed radiation dose”). The site was told that the movie was in the vein of Cloverfield and 28 Days Later, with a budget in the range of $25 million and a script already being written from an “extensive” Abrams outline.
Dave in NY says
Saw the trailer. Looks cool…
What could it be??