J.J. Abrams Reveals the Plot and More for Super 8
Monday, February 7th, 2011
J.J. Abrams film Super 8 has pretty much been a close guarded secret, hardly revealing anything with only a little bit of information being released. Well we just had the TV spot which aired during the Super Bowl, that revealed some characters and gave us some idea as to what decade it takes place in.
J.J. Abrams has lifted the lid off and spoke to the L.A. Times about Super 8 and revealing the most we have heard of Super 8 yet, check out the plot details below.
“The Paramount Pictures release is 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.”
To read the full article head on over to the L.A. Times where Abram talks even more about the movie, including origins and what challenges the film faces.
Super 8 is written & directed by J.J. Abrams with Steven Spielberg as executive producer, the film stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, and AJ Michalka.
Super 8 hits theatres and IMAX on June 10, 2011.
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What do you guys think?
Praise the lord or the demons, which ever it is that has summoned this glorious news. A few months ago it was announced that, god forbid, the Hellraiser remake was going to be aimed at a teen audience, think of a sparkly Pinhead. Actually scratch that, Pinhead doesn’t sparkle he freaking causes pain and pleasure and no one does it better.
Robert Rodriguez doesn’t wait around does he, I haven’t even seen Machete yet and he has already written the sequel? That’s insane! Well according to the guys over at