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Paramount has released the trailer (after the jump) for the Steven Spielberg produced JJ Abrams directed secret project Super 8. I don’t know what’s going on in this trailer, but that truck has some horse power behind it let me tell you. Slashfilm has a list of “Everything We know About JJ Abrams’ Super 8″, here are the less obvious notes:
- It is not a Cloverfield sequel or prequel.
- This will be an homage/tribute to Spielberg’s 1970’s/1980’s Amblin films, like Close Encounters of a Third Kind and E.T. Imagine combining that with the characters, mystery and supernatural spin of Abrams.
- And it takes place in the late 1979.
- The trailer was shot independently of the film a month ago, and the special effects were done under the cover of Abrams new NBC series Undercovers.
- It will be shot traditionally, and not through a handheld Super 8 Camera ala Cloverfield.
- It will be released in Summer 2011. The release date could be May 27, 2011. I say this because Paramount, just today, pushed Mission Impossible 4 out of that date, and back to December, leaving the slot open.
- HeatVision says that actual movie has something to do with “the possibility that a group of kids in 1979 are playing around making movies with their Super 8 cameras (as Abrams and Spielberg did as kids) and accidentally capture something…sinister, on film.” This certainly gels with Vulture’s original theory on the trailer.
