More on Cloverfield

Posted on August 21, 2007
Filed Under News, Rumors

Remember back in July, when I wrote about the upcoming monster movie Cloverfield (sometimes referred to as “01-18-08″, but that is to my knowledge just the release date). Now more rumors are circulating the Internet. Dread Central claim to have the inside scoop and have the following to report:

“It’s not Godzilla or Voltron (duh) or even Cthulu; anyone expecting there to be some sort of elaborately detailed backstory may be in for a disappointment. Expect an old-fashioned monster movie retold in a very modern Blair Witch sort of way – but with a twist. You see that giant monster that emerges from the ocean to begin laying waste to New York City … it didn’t come alone.

Much of the movie will revolve around the characters fleeing for their lives, not from the big one stomping the city, but from the ‘raptor-like’ smaller versions hunting them down. Word from the start has been that this would not be a mega-budget movie and the digital effects work needed for a giant monster trashing New York City would no doubt cost a heck of a lot more than street level action of people being chased by smaller monsters.

This would also seem to jive with some of the set footage that’s shown up online … it’s just too bad it sounds so much like the Emmerich Godzilla, however.”

A little teaser trailer can be found right here!

Yes, well we don’t want another Godzilla, that’s for sure. But I ‘ll tell you what we do want: A really, really good monster movie. We crave it. We demand it. A movie with a great script, superb actors and a big, no, HUGE monster that looks spectacular. That’s what we want.

Now, is that too much to ask?

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