While the film seemed to have a connection to the Abrams-produced alien-disaster flick "Cloverfield," we soon learned that wasn't true. It featured a fiery train crash and the unseen presence of the mysterious creature. Sources connected to the film said the story would focus on a group of small-town kids in 1979 who begin filming a home movie on a Super 8 camera, only to capture the crash and the emergence of the creature. By that point, Abrams had cast a collection of unknown young actors, plus Elle Fanning ("Somewhere"), to play his featured kids, as well as Kyle Chandler ("Friday Night Lights") to portray the town sheriff and central boy's father. The next month, all "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves would tell us was that the film "is very, very intimately connected to an aspect of [Abrams'] childhood and to this idea of Super 8 [films]."
The Dust Settles
By February of this year, as Abrams got set to debut a "Super 8" Super Bowl ad and a full trailer, the director finally began to open up about the project, albeit reluctantly. Abrams explained to the Los Angeles Times. In a long-ranging conversation, he touched on the Spielbergian influences in "Super 8" that so many observers had noticed. Abrams, Spielberg and the kids were on hand at the show to introduce the footage.
By February of this year, as Abrams got set to debut a "Super 8" Super Bowl ad and a full trailer, the director finally began to open up about the project, albeit reluctantly. Abrams explained to the Los Angeles Times. In a long-ranging conversation, he touched on the Spielbergian influences in "Super 8" that so many observers had noticed. Abrams, Spielberg and the kids were on hand at the show to introduce the footage.
Michael Bahr, education director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, remembers when he encountered “this dynamic, charismatic, this kind of human dynamo called Riley Griffiths in this first-grade play.”
I'm not sure how the storm caused the film tearing in the projection booth. First, Paramount failed to reach 18-35 year-old Baltimoreans by launching a Twitter campaign about advance screenings of "Super 8" at the Senator. Sadly, the movie was a big disappointment.
The junior-high kids' struggle to make a Super 8 zombie thriller brings the movie most of its charm, sentiment and humor.
But the comedy, drama and terror all peak during the location shoot/train wreck scene that anchored the first terrific "Super 8" trailer (see above).
Abrams calls his script a love letter.
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