Sources confirm to EW.com what was first reported by Deadline.com regarding J.J. Abrams’ super-secret project Super 8. (The upcoming project’s teaser trailer bows before Iron Man 2 this weekend.) Turns out it is the movie he is working on with Steven Spielberg: The Saving Private Ryan director will produce the film, budgeted at $45 million, and Abrams will direct this fall. (It’s slated for release next summer.) Abrams will complete it before moving on to Star Trek 2 which will bow summer 2012. The movie is an homage to the sci-fi films Abrams loved as a teenager.
The trailer, as described by Deadline, takes place in the 1970s. “A pickup truck veers onto a train track, heading directly for a locomotive. The legend appears: ‘In 1979, the US Air Force closed a section of Area 51. All the materials were to be transported to a secure facility in Ohio.’ The truck hits the train, and both fly off the tracks in an explosion. Focus on one train car that was spared, and a heavy pounding is heard from inside.”
Check it out this weekend and let us know what you think.
It’s Smokey!!!
or Cloverfield?
Totally!!! Smokey is GOD!!!
No kidding. How funny would it be to see Locke bust out of that train car?!!!
A heavy pounding on an armored train car, only to reveal John Locke, years after LOST has ended, busting out and unleashed into 1970′s America? Best insane thing I’ve heard in months!
This is a film adaptation of my novel Revolution. Search ‘Roswell’ on authonomy.com
sounds good hope no kids find it then it will turn into a et remade .
JJ is a GENIUS and I am so thrilled about this I cannot even put it into words. This is a meeting of the minds of two incredibly gifted and imaginative people.
I am up for nearly anything JJ does. Pair him with Spielberg, and I am definitely interested!
Am I the only one that gets irked by the use of the word “bow” when describing a debut? I know it’s the correct use of the word. It just sounds more like a word that describes an exit rather than an appearance.
I think it’s just you. Using “bow” isn’t a new thing.
I completely agree with “G.”, I’m so sick of hearing the word “bow” in relation to a films premiere. It “irks” me every time I read it and ew writers use it like 3 times in every post about a film opening soon. Why can’t they say “releases” or “premiere” instead? I don’t like to think a film “bows” before me, it’s a film for petes sake, it premieres…
dude uve commented on this like 9 times…we get it….ps ur a geek
I agree with you. I mean, if you want to use it occasionally, fine. but Sperling uses it every time in her postings, and in this particular one uses it twice. Seriously, learn some other vocabulary!
Ya know, yer right. I’ve noticed it’s use more often these days. It doesn’t seem right, even if it is.
P.S. You rawk G Thug, way to get offended over nothing.
I also looked it up, and all the official definitions say nothing about it being used in this manner. Not that that really means anything, but still.
maybe it’s a holdover from the more polite days when men and women would bow upon meeting.
Though its been a term thats been used for a long time, I can see G’s point with using “bow” as a debut. So many things have bows at the end. Like at a performance people bow at the end as a sign of the end and a thanks. Though the term being used as a debut doesn’t both me I can see why some people might not like it.
I know what he’s saying, I just don’t get why it would bother anyone. Does he get bothered when someone says that Lebron James was “flying” on a slam dunk? Because we all know he wasn’t technically flying at all. It’s a figure of speech.
My favorite part of this article was the use of the word bow.
bow wow wow
yippee yo yippie yay
where my dogs at?
I like Abrams’ movies (Cloverfield, Star Trek), but I feel like he’s an ass. I don’t know why. I have just always thought that.
Well, let’s analyze that: I’ve never met you but from the things you post online, I’ll make a judgment about your character: You’re an insensitive tramp secretly wanting to be a man.
Does that sound ANYTHING like what you actually are? (Well hopefully not at least) I just hope the lesson stands that we don’t pass judgment on others on a whim–makes us look bad, no?
Calm down. I never said he was an ass. I never said I felt good about feeling that way. I just said that’s how I feel. No need for attempts at moral lessons here.
Dear Wilson, words can’t describe how much of an idiotic insensitive, hypocritical moron you are for posting your reply to Mandy’s post which is obviously nothing more than a personal opinion. People like you are why GENOCIDE is necessary in this world.
Sounds very cool, better than Iron Man 2 for sure.
stop saying ‘bow’, it makes you seem pretentious
J J Abrams and Steven Speilberg working together on a project? My God, is that gonna be something special!
its a Cloverfield prequel.
No, it’s not a Cloverfield prequel. Abrams already confirmed that it is an entirely separate project.
Abrams himself said that this film (which he has not finnished making) will have absolutely NOTHING to do with Cloverfield. So I think its safe to say we have something original to look forward to.
lol you guys are seriously arguing over the word bow? wow
If someone said the word “bow” to me in this context to my face I would have no choice but to slap them.
Sounds like Spielberg has finally recreatred the scene from ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’. The pivitol moment he decided to become a director.