7 Pieces of Evidence Suggesting Cloverfield Is Based on The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
If you haven’t already heard, producer J.J. Abrams, the man behind the TV series Lost and Alias, is working on a new movie whose title was recently revealed to be Cloverfield.
The film first sparked interest when a teaser trailer was shown before Transformers earlier this summer. Its lack of clues as to what exactly the film was about, including the absence of a title, immediately ignited curiosity on the Internet. Those intrigued by the film became detectives, analyzing the teaser frame by frame, searching for anything that might reveal the specifics of the film.
The only concrete information to be obtained from the teaser was that the film would be set in New York City, star some sort of catastrophic monster on a rampage that involved decapitating the Statue of Liberty, be shot with a handheld camera to simulate amateur footage caught by someone in the midst of this apocalyptic mess, and be released on January 18th, 2008.
Since then, new information has become available to help solve this mystery, including viral marketing websites, film stills, and a full-length trailer.
However, it was a comment by a man named Rick, in response to a post at FirsShowing.net describing the new trailer, that synthesized these new clues and made what I believe to be an accurate prediction that Cloverfield will be a retelling of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
Here’s the evidence.
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