1-18-08 - The mysterious untitled movie by JJ Abrams

I bet a lot of you guys have heard it on the news , watch the trailer, or read it somewhere. The hype around this upcoming movie is so big especially on the Internet.

The movie's teaser was shown just before the premiere of Transformer in America. There were no title shown only the date 1-18-08 and producer JJ Abrams. He is the producer of popular TV series Alias and Lost.

Romours say that it might be a new Godzilla movies, or Voltron (the cartoon), or Gamera or Cthulhu..... no matter what, the movie have a monster in it. The marketing technique they done here with their Blair Witch Project style teaser is quite impressive, considering the hype it managed to create. Try type in the date 1-18-08 on the search bar and you'll find tons of people talking about this. The codename of this movie is called Cloverfield, and also Slusho - a type of drink in one episode of Alias.

You can watch the trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/
Or go to their official website: http://www.1-18-08.com/
and the suspected site many think related to the movie: http://www.slusho.jp/ (One of the actor wearing a slusho T-shirt in the trailer)

You can also read blogs, reports and forums from:
http://www.firstshowing.net/?s=1-18-08&x=0&y=0
http://blogs.indiewire.com/mattdentler/archives/014031.html
http://movies.ign.com/articles/801/801593p1.html

So tell me what do you think of it!