Empire Magazine has a huge article on Cloverfield. Kingpin from Unfiction was nice enough to scan these in, and had this to say:Like the byline said, the newest edition of Empire hit shelves either today or on Friday, and as promised had an article on Cloverfield spanning six pages (five of article and sixth being half of a huge graphic).My local bookstore - Joesph Beth - carries Empire magazine. I would assume Barnes & Noble or Borders would have it as well (it may take a while to get the newest issue here in the US).
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Unlike the claim, the article doesn't really reveal the truth over it... but basically elaborates on it for anyone who hasn't been a part of the viral marketing campaign... some amusing notes here and there as well as a pretty accurate play-by-play timeline of what was discovered in order of earliest discovery to latest.
It seems to be getting more publicity now. I feel sorry for people who don't know about the backstory. They see the trailer and just think it's another movie. They are missing out on so much!
ReplyDeletefirst post?! cool.
ReplyDeleteis there anything of interest to us? i dont really want to read the whole article the way it is right now.
Anyway, as i said earlier, somebody suggested making a tasteless parody on the backlash for youtube a while back, and i had a gr8 idea.
I could easily make a still picture + narration style of movie, mixed with some interviews, that would parody the 9/11 conspiracy.
It would be like the first 10 minutes of a south park episode, the connection would be very vague, but once its realised, the film becomes 100% funnier. But, its still funny at face value.
If anyone has ideas for specific Jokes or any ideas at all, let me know, Im gonna get to work writing it as soon as possible.
sry to post irrelevant material tho.
The viral stuff is what really makes this movie fun!
ReplyDeleteAny particular reason the last page says "Cloverfield is out on February 1"? Is that just them stating an irrelevant date or is it a giant mistake? Because last time I checked it was coming out on January 18 *cough* empire you mention 1-18-08 in the story *cough*
ReplyDeleteor have I missed some huge, monstrous (hehe..) change of date?
Colossus and Found were never names of Cloverfield, they forgot Wreck though.
ReplyDeleteI love how every article of Cloverfield pretends to "reveal the truth." Still, it is slightly fun just hearing the same stuff over and over... I guess. IGN also has a Cloverfield article, too.
Uh oh, you think the movie's being delayed by two weeks?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that Empire is a British magazine because they spelled favorite 'favoUrite,' and I think Feb 1 might be the release date there.
ReplyDeletealright calm down
ReplyDeleteit is release on february the 1st in england..
John said... Any particular reason the last page says "Cloverfield is out on February 1"? Is that just them stating an irrelevant date or is it a giant mistake? Because last time I checked it was coming out on January 18 *cough* empire you mention 1-18-08 in the story *cough* ... or have I missed some huge, monstrous (hehe..) change of date?
ReplyDeleteRyan Ferneau said... Uh oh, you think the movie's being delayed by two weeks?
Cloverfield comes out on January 18, in the US.
Empire Magazine is in the UK, and the movie comes out on February 1st there.
C LOVER F IELD (a new age)... I can't believe you are still trying to post here. Are you really that sad and lonely? Don't you have anything better you could do with your time? I feel sorry for you.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, I think there will be lots of inside jokes in the movie for people who keep up on viral stuff. Remember the widget, Hud was like "Rob, Rob I saw!" and rob was like "What's he trying to say?" like the old Lion thing.
ReplyDeleteSo I was reading the scanned pages, thinking, "Okay, wow, no mistakes at all in terms of the viral marketing/overall Cloverfield story, awesome" and then bam, they accidentally label Jessica Lucas/Lily as Odette Yustman/Beth in the label for the "Pressing door shut" picture.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, probably the best article I've read for the film. It doesn't exactly tell us anything brand new, but still the most insightful and interesting. I had no idea Abrams planned to direct this once upon a time. That would have been an interesting result.
Jessica Lucas DOES play Lil and Odette Yustman DOES play Beth, dude. What they mixed up in the pic was Lily and Beth- it's Lil in the picture, not Beth.
ReplyDeleteThere's also an inconsistency here in relation to a previous Michael Stahl-David's interview, where he relayed a story about losing his script. Does anyone else remember that? Something about the powers that be demanding he find the lost screenplay no matter what, then and there. Here Matt Reeves says a script was never formulated.
ReplyDeleteSomeone's exaggerating.
Probably they never had a concrete script, just looked at it and paraphrased it.
ReplyDeleteAn issue or two ago of Empire had a little paragraph on how declasse the whole Cloverfield secret name scandal was. Nice to see them swallowing their words - though I really do hope the movie lives up to it!
ReplyDeletegreat article... I have never been this excited about a movie EVER!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that they keep perpetuating the story that Takako Konishi died searching for the Fargo movie treasure when a documentary was made that explains that that just wasn't the case.
ReplyDeletehttp://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,970908,00.html