Monday, December 17, 2007

Bryan Burk Interview - SciFi.com

Bryan Burk, producer of Cloverfield, was interviewed by SciFi.com:

[The] intention was to make America's answer to Japan's Godzilla and that the movie was inspired by other films. "It's an entirely original story and monster," Burk, a producing partner with Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams, said in an interview in November.
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"The viral stuff online was all done in conjunction with the studio," Burk said. "A woman named Amy Powell at Paramount is in charge. She's [a] genius, to say the least. The whole experience in making this movie is very reminiscent with how we did Lost.

SciFi.com: Producer Talks Cloverfield

* Thanks to Scott at one-eighteen-oh-eight.blogspot.com

14 comments:

  1. Antyhing having to do with Lost is good to go in my book.

    oh, and first post again!

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  2. this is history in the making, folks!
    /an unpatiently awating swede.

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  3. I just picked up a new SciFi magazine they have a 2 page article in it about cloverfield

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  4. on an unrelated note, i wanted to point out that a 7 digit number does appear during the second trailer. Ive heard ppl mention looking for randy's number, so if anyone wants to try it go for it.
    343-1600

    It appears just before the glimpse of the monster.
    some of the numbers are a little smudged, but im almost positive the numbers r correct.
    its a long shot, but its not 555, so u never know.

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  5. Every one of these interviews seems to indiscriminately hint at the possibility of a sequel. If that pans out, do you think they'll stick with the first-person handicam motif? Or will they go the way of the Blair Witch franchise, and throw a generically-filmed big-budget reprise at us?

    It's just speculation now, I know, but it poses a fun challenge. Either option could make for some big problems.

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  6. If they go the Blair Witch route, let's hope they do a better job than Blair Witch 2.

    Also, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to leave the first-person limited point of view. According to all the reviews I've read of "I Am Legend," the monsters in that look incredibly fake even though they had a huge budget. Probably better to limit how much we see the monster so as to avoid getting too good a look and losing any suspension of disbelief and/or fear.

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  7. http://qintuluh.de/ Movie Community

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  8. Blair Witch 2 was the way it was because the original makers had nothing to do with it. They were busy, so the studio hired a guy who hated the original and who decided to turn #2 into a "violent media makes us killers!1!!" thing.

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  9. This isn't really related to this interview, but I just saw the Cloverfield TV spot on VH1

    it has maybe a scene or two that isn't in the trailer...

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  10. Yes me too bubba I logged on to post it, There was a trailer on TV so siiick.

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  11. Cool, and that is my friend and neighbor Tara doing the interview!

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  12. They could make an infinite number of films through handi-cam style, each film depicting a different character's
    point of view, and hey, what about
    the Monster's point of view, poor thing,
    so big and nothing to eat but humans??

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