This Is NOT The Monster, Part 4

Slashfilm has a story about a Cloverfield knock-off movie called Monster, which comes out on video 1-15-08. The company behind this blatant rip-off is The Asylum, a studio who is notorious for making low-budget versions of big blockbuster movies, and trying to fool people at the video store. They are kind of like the movie equivalent of gamejackers.

Other Asylum movies include Snakes on a Train, I Am Omega, Transmorphers, and The Da Vinci Treasure.

This Is NOT The Monster, Part 3

There will be no Greg Grunberg in Cloverfield, according to TV Guide:

There will not be a cameo by Heroes' Greg Grunberg, who has appeared in many of longtime friend Abrams' previous projects. "We thought people would be too familiar with him," Reeves says. Guess eveybody doesn't need a hero.

The funny thing is, it was TV Guide who originally reported that he was going to be in the movie:

One movie that Abrams is casting Grunberg in is the buzzerific disaster flick known only by its myriad working titles (i.e., Cloverfield, 1-18-08, Slusho). "It'll probably be something where no one will be able to tell it's me," he said. "As you know, J.J. calls me his good-luck charm, so he's got to put me in there somewhere. I actually went to the set the other night, and it was really exciting and cool. The budget is not astronomical. But they're doing incredible things."

UPDATE: Or Is He? Maybe?

This Is NOT The Monster, Part 2

Here is an amazing artist rendition of a Cloverfield monster concept. The fan made artwork is NOT the Cloverfield monster, but was in fact created by Washington artist Doug Williams, for an online contest. Nice work Doug!

You can check out Doug's other artwork at DougBlot.Blogspot.com

* Thanks to everyone for emailing me about this, especially Peter at /Film for origin of the artwork.
* This post was bumped from Sept 20th

This Is NOT The Monster, Part 1

This is part one in a series I am calling "This Is NOT the Monster".

I have received countless emails over the past few days with various links to websites claiming to have a photo of the Cloverfield monster (or MGP as it is known as at UnFiction).

That photo actually comes from Peter Konig's gallery of "concept" art, at the appropriately named ConceptArt.org. The gallery is full of things that could be the monster, but are not.

Also on that page, it mentions that visual effects company Tippett Studio's Peter Konig ... is [the] art director for the upcoming, top secret JJ Abrams production "Cloverfield".

And if you don't believe me, Harry Knowles of AICN summed it up in one word: BUNK.

More evidence here: http://www.2snaps.tv/9813767

"The image shows models ... for potential creatures to be used in a video game production back in 2003, which was being done by Massive Black... Which just happens to be Konig's company."