J.J. Abrams' Super 8

[Whiskey Tango]

There is nothing wrong with kid movies...I just thought it would be something different. I don't line up at midnight to go see kid movies. I do also like Goonies but that is because it is from my childhood. As you grow up, fart and pee jokes just don't age with you.

So now Super 8 is gonna be loaded with fart jokes? Your crystal ball powerz are mighty indeed.

 

[chaseter]

He also said it would be a scary, funny, science fictiony story. What's not to love about all of those qualities? What he was describing was a great film like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I will wait and see. I don't want to get overly excited and be let down. If this movie is R, has an evil scary alien, and a lot of people die then I am in like Flint. If it is a baby alien or a confused but loveable alien and kids are out to save it then I am out until I see the reviews. We will see. I was just overly stoked for this with the teaser but after hearing some of his direction I am cautious at this point because the two teasers would be extremely misleading.

 

[chaseter]

So now Super 8 is gonna be loaded with fart jokes? Your crystal ball powerz are mighty indeed.

Oh Jezus.

Goonies had fart jokes. Those aren't funny anymore. A lot of the humor in the Goonies isn't funny to me anymore. I never said Super 8 was loaded with teh fart jokez. Humor geared towards kids isn't the same as humor geared toward adults.

My crystal ball powerz also say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

 

[Kane52630]

I was just overly stoked for this with the teaser but after hearing some of his direction I am cautious at this point because the two teasers would be extremely misleading.

Here's the thing Chase, almost every trailer/teaser is misleading.

 

[chaseter]

Here's the thing Chase, almost every trailer/teaser is misleading.

They should be punished.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Oh Jezus.

Goonies had fart jokes. Those aren't funny anymore. A lot of the humor in the Goonies isn't funny to me anymore. I never said Super 8 was loaded with teh fart jokez. Humor geared towards kids isn't the same as humor geared toward adults.

My crystal ball powerz also say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

I think you're over-reacting.

 

[chaseter]

I think you're over estimating.

 

[Dave McFly]

I DO like the use of the "Cocoon theme" in the trailer, have not heard that in YEARS!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I think you're over estimating.

I'm not the one doing the Chicken Little because JJ mentioned some kid's movies.

 

[chaseter]

I'm not the one doing the Chicken Little because JJ mentioned some kid's movies.

JJ is a god so it applies.

 

[DIRECTOR]

is the voice in the teaser from the alien?

 

[ironwez20]

Dammit is it a monster or some sort of entity. I really wish we knew what it was. I guess they are going with the not show the monster til the release thing going on like godzilla. im really interested.

 

[dark_b]

i now think there is a chance that we will not see the monster/alien in the movie

 

[kvz5]

Abrams' silence about this project really paid off! I can't wait!

 

[Secret Fawful]

Oh wow someone doesn't get jokes and is way too invested in this movie.

Me?

You're way off base. You're confusing humorless with brash.

I also didn't say this movie would suck and be horrible so quell your angry sexual excitement. So settle down there and watch where you are pointing that thing.

But seriously, you say some friggin stupid stuff. For one thing, my sexual excitement is never angry, just...exciting, baby.

 

[Catman]

I wonder if maybe there are two aliens. One a little friendlier, and one that's destructive?

Funny you should mention that,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Skies

Night Skies was a sci-fi horror film that was in development in the late 1970s, but never actually made. Steven Spielberg conceived the idea after Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Instead, material developed at the time was used in Poltergeist and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Sayles delivered his first (and in the end, only) draft of the screenplay, which featured five aliens (cut down from the original eleven) including the aforementioned Scar; "Squirt"; and "Buddy", who was kind and befriended the human family's autistic son. Sayles's script opened with Scar (who was described in the script as having a beak-like mouth and eyes like a grasshopper's) killing farm animals by touching them with a long bony finger which gave off an eerie light, and ended with Buddy, marooned on Earth by his mean-spirited peers, cowering under the shadow of an approaching hawk.

Although Night Skies as a film would never reach production status, it still has a rather interesting and long legacy, as it helped inspire not only E.T., but also Poltergeist (which had a family terrorized by paranormal forces and Spielberg hired Tobe Hooper to direct), Spielberg and Mathison's proposed E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears (which had malicious, animal-mutilating cousins of E.T.), Gremlins (which had one innocent and kind member of a species of otherwise mean-spirited creatures as well as being able to see Night Skies being advertised in a movie theater), Critters (which had a farm family terrorized by cattle-mutilating aliens), the video game Destroy All Humans!, Signs, and Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake. Sayles, meanwhile, riffed on E.T.'s success with 1984's The Brother from Another Planet, a more socio-political take on the story of a benevolent alien stranded on Earth.

I wonder if J.J. Abrams teamed up with Steven Spielberg to secretly bring this project to life.

 

[rashad]

The TV Spot was awesome. Definitely loving the old school Spielberg vibe.

 

[dark_b]

was this music form Williams?

 

[Paroxysm]

I don't know but it was very john williams-ish

 

[dark_b]

i have huge respect for JJ that he made a movie that is happening in the 80's and not in modern times.

 

[Crockett]

I don't know about the music, but mclay18 says the music from the tv spot is from Horner's score for Cocoon.

The music is from James Horner's Cocoon score, which came out around the same time period E.T. did.

 

[Watson]

Funny you should mention that,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Skies

I wonder if J.J. Abrams teamed up with Steven Spielberg to secretly bring this project to life.

Interesting. I could see it at least being a little based on this idea.

 

[dark_b]

what was the old guy saying?

''do not speak of this ''

 

[dark_b]

i wouldnt be suprised if Spielberg will cry during the movie.

i think this could be hes dream from childhood.

i remember 2 big interviews where he talked how he used a super 8 camera to make movies when he was a kid. i bet he was dreaming that something like this would happen to him.

 

[Maximus One]

It is from Cocoon. My aunt was saying something about it when we saw it air last nite