Cloverfield-induced headaches be damned! Director J.J. Abrams just confirmed that a sequel to the shaky-cam film might be headed our way if they get the idea right. He was asked about the film at this Star Trek panel at WonderCon over the weekend. Here’s his answer:
"We’re actually working on an idea right now…. We have an idea that we thought was pretty cool that we’re playing with, which means there will be something that’s connected to ‘Cloverfield,’ but I hope it happens sooner than later because the idea is pretty sweet."
He offered no further details on the project, which appears to be quite a long ways off. Abrams’ next project is Star Trek which opens this summer.
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Is JJ Abrams the new king of Hollywood? A presence around TV and film for many years, he made his name creating Alias, and then went on to make the hugely successful Lost, with its vast viral marketing campaign (its inter-season online game The Lost Experience was even more complex and sprawling than the show itself). He followed this up with Cloverfield, another success due to the marketing, and the film’s low budget (which meant large profit). And, before his revamped Star Trek comes out, his latest creation, entitled Fringe, is a mystery TV series that starts airing in the US in September. But lucky for you we’ve managed to watch the first episode of the show, and post some thoughts.
The show starts with a shock, as the passengers of a plane are infected by a chemical that rapidly melts human flesh. The FBI are called in, and we follow agent liaison officer Agent Dunham. Hot on a trail, her partner and lover gets infected, and Dunham has to solve the case before she loses her love. She eventually tracks down a mad scientist, Dr. Bishop, and uses his son to get him out of the madhouse and into the lab. Already, the story stinks of another X-Files, but is it any more?
Its big advantage over The X-Files is its confined mythology. While The X-Files had an arc that ran throughout its entire series, that of an alien invasion, about half of each series comprised of diversions, following cases such as stretchy serial killers, possessed children, Bigfoots (Bigfeet?), etc, which often proved frustrating. Fringe, however, has linked all of its abnormalities into a single thread- that of terrorism seemingly generated by some evil corporation that is above federal powers. Read the rest of this entry »
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