Cloverfield

Slashfilm has got an assload of details scanned from the movie’s production notes, and I suggest heading over there now to read it, or you can just glean the excerpts of the more important points below.

Love story?

“We’re seeing the aftermath of two people who have longed to be together, and somehow finally come together, crosscut with this other event,” the director explains. “By going back and forth between these two pieces, you end up heightening the drama. By looking back at this relationship and what it could have been, the audience starts to put the pieces together as to why Rob is so eager to rescue her.”

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This is a new clip of soldiers shooting at the monster from a distance. Check out this new television advertisement titled “Breathless”.

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A few interesting pieces about Cloverfield:

• The film started out as an “elaborate 60-page treatment” by Lost writer Drew Goddard.
• Cloverfield features no musical score at all, “just source music and well-orchestrated ambient sound.”
• The beginning of the film was show with a lightweight Panasonic HD HandyCam, “then moves into transitional sequences shot with a 3-lb. Canon for about a third of the film.” The special effects shots were filmed with “the much-heavier” hi-res Sony F23 or Thomson Viper.
• One five-minute continuous master shot “incorporates 20 VFX elements.”
• Director Matt Reeves promises “intimate contact” with the monster by the end of the 90-minute film.
• A digital version of Cloverfield will play on in a few hundred screens.
• Cloverfield cost $25 million
• Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08.

Get full article on Variety.com.

The Cloverfield viral game has finally begun to catch up with the film, which releases in less than two weeks. Watch these fictional Italian, Spanish and German news clips to see AWESOME firsthand footage of the Chaui Station meltdown, and the first (off screen) appearances of the Cloverfield Monster.

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People on my myspace forum titled Cloverfield’s Monster Theories have been posting a picture of this monster for the upcoming, top secret JJ Abrahms production “Cloverfield”. This picture from http://www.conceptart.org. Don’t know how true it is but looks more closer to what in the trailer .

It’s basically the same thing as the previous teaser posters, but now with the official movie title “Cloverfield“.