One of the coolest things about Transformers has absolutely nothing to do with giant freakin’ robots or the movie at all. Instead look to the trailers. One in particular, an untitled picture produced by J.J. Abrams (of “Lost” fame) is making quite the splash. No big surprise. The trailer is awesome. If it is correctly selling the movie’s concept, what we’re looking at is an invasion/monster movie told from the perspective of a common household camcorder. Now we’ve seen something like that millions of times since The Blair Witch Project made it big, but this is with professional visual effects. Watching the head of the statue of liberty crash past the user’s video camera in the trailer made me giddy for more.
Now why haven’t you heard more about this than gushing about the trailer? Because somehow, in this big world of internet spies and websites reporting every single move famous people make, Abrams has managed to bring this move in under the radar. Thus, there’s not much going on in the way of reports. Hell, the movie doesn’t even have a name yet. It’s unofficially being referred to as “Parasite” or “The Cloverfield Project” (Cloverfield for short).
That bastion of movie intrigue, Ain’t It Cool, has finally managed to uncover some information about this unheard of project. I guess with the trailer showing up in theaters word is out that we want to know more. They claim to have the inside scoop on who is directing the Abrams produced picture: Matt Reeves. Not a big name, but Reeves has worked with Abrams as a writer on “Felicity” and a producer on “Lost” the upcoming Star Trek picture. Now his only film credit so far is as director of The Pallbearer - you know, the comedy with David Schwimmer and Gwenyth Paltrow? If that’s any indication, then Reeves may just be the right man to make a horror flick, because that movie certainly was scary.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Director-Discovered-For-Cloverfield-5661.html
