J.J. Abrams 'Super 8' Secrets Revealed & Super Bowl Trailer
For the first time, J.J. Abrams speaks openly about Super 8, his next flick that's sure to win the hearts of a lot of 80's cinema fans. Check below for the latest on Super 8, including a new plot crunch, and the Super Bowl ad for Super 8, which is being compared to E.T. and The Gonnies.
In speaking to the L.A. Times Hero Complex, Abrams offered the following Super 8 description:
Set in Ohio in 1979 and introduces a troupe of six youngsters who are using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie. One fateful night, their project takes them to a lonely stretch of rural railroad tracks and, as the camera rolls, calamity strikes — a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire. Then something emerges from the wreckage, something decidedly inhuman.
The Hero Complex continues, 'Super 8, a sci-fi film that has the monster-on-the-loose vibe of Fringe (another television show that Abrams co-created) or The X-Files as well as a throwback spirit that in many ways evokes E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me and maybe even The Goonies.'
Check out the full article at The Hero Complex, and see the Super bowl ad below.
