Friday, March 11, 2011

This First Super 8 Trailer Unravels Some of the Mystery in J.J. Abram's Latest

The latest J.J. Abrams film is co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Bryan Burk (Cloverfield). Just released today, is the first full length feature trailer for this film, with Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, and Noah Emmerich starring. Edward Pagan of Latin Horror notices the "tableaux of visual story telling," in the clip and this film harkens back to Spielberg's exploration of sentient alien life in such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. Proposing a greater life than our own, this first trailer for Super 8 shows mystique fully realized through the genre of science fiction. Have a look at the clip below, courtesy of Trailer Addict and Paramount Pictures.

The synopsis for Super 8 is here:

"In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined" (Trailer).

Release: June 10, 2011 (Wide Release).

Director/writer: J.J. Abrams.

Cast: Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Ron Eldard, Amanda Michalka, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills, Katie Lowes, Marco Sanchez, Joel Courtney and Ryan Lee.

The trailer for the film is here (rated PG-13):



*to be made available for IMAX theatres.

**shot for $45 million.

The film's official website is here:

Super 8's Website at Paramount

Sources:

Super 8 at Trailer Addict

Super 8 at Latin Horror

There is a noticeable connection between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Super 8 through genre and the choice of antagonists:



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