I’m on Keira Knightley’s Exemption List

I’m just that cool.
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Movie buffs, and those who remember the Alternate Reality Game that was used to promote Spielberg’s A.I. (and which was, in many ways, better than the film it promoted) may wish to check out this site related to a new movie by J.J. Abrams (codenamed “Cloverfield”).
It ties in to a trailer that screened in the U.S. before Transformers, and which didn’t name a title, only a release date. No official version is on the web yet, but here’s a bootleg EDIT: link is dead.
Curiously, this promotional effort arrived on the scene around the same time as the mysterious web-puzzles surrounding Ethan Haas. No-one’s sure whether Haas is part of the Cloverfield promotion or just came online at the same time. Haas includes a bunch of references to Lovecraftian lore, however, and that combined with the panic-in-the-streets has some excited movie nerds interpreting the mysterious trailer as Statue of Liberty getting pwned by C’thulhu. See much discussion here, for starters. Me, I have no time to pursue this – someone tell me what it all means when the truth comes out, willya?
EDIT: I felt like watching the trailer again and the above link has been pulled, but the official trailer site is now up here. Much better sound and visuals. Key line of dialogue now audible: “I saw it, it’s alive, it’s huge!”
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There is now a copy of Pride & Prejudice on my bed. Also a copy of David Mamet’s book of Hollywood insider revelations + screenwriting advice. Also the novel and the autobiography I’m already reading. Also way too many books on action research and group dynamics from the Victoria University Library. It feels like coming home.

6 thoughts on “I’m on Keira Knightley’s Exemption List”

  1. I’m getting regular updates on “cloverfield” (which BTW is the fake title) through Cleolinda, so I will let you know. The trailer looks neat though, and I do love alien invasion type stuff…

  2. Those Ethan Haas web puzzles are odd. My connection keeps crapping out so they’re not working properly.
    I assume you know that if you click on the stars, you unlock various goodies, like a video by some guy called Van.

  3. Or for the shortcut, search for Ethan Haas and Cloverfield on Wikipedia.
    My favourite fun fact: Ethan Haas was a character on the TV Show The Class and one of the actresses on that show was Lizzie Caplan who is in the film Cloverfield. 🙂

  4. Apparently the Ethan Haas stuff and the Cloverfield trailer are completely separate.
    This doesn’t mean that Cthulhu might not be in Cloverfield though. 🙂

  5. Yeah, I too saw semi-official word that Ethan Haas is different to Cloverfield. There remains the remote possibility that this is yet more misinformation, but I’m inclined to accept is as-is. Looks like it won’t be Cthulhu-eats-NooYawk after all 🙂

  6. The word I’ve heard is that the Ethan Haas stuff is for a computer game.
    The other word I’ve heard is that “Cloverfield” is about a monster called The Parasite.
    And a friend in New York emailed after watching the trailer to say “‘Reality’ indeed — I didn’t realise NYC was entirely populated by young, thin, blandly good-looking people.”

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