{"id":8121,"date":"2010-05-06T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2010-05-06T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:45:03","slug":"super-8-is-not-a-cloverfield-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/06\/super-8-is-not-a-cloverfield-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPER 8 Is Not A CLOVERFIELD Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/JJAbrams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8097\" title=\"JJAbrams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/JJAbrams-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Speculation as to what JJ Abram&#8217;s top secret project <strong>Super 8<\/strong> continues to swirl around the internet. When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/05\/what-is-jj-abrams-top-secret-super-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> first broke earlier this week, many thought that this could be a sequel to Cloverfield, a school of thought that was further strengthened by a report from Vulture that &#8220;absolutely connected to 2008&#8217;s <strong>Cloverfield<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2010\/05\/jj_abrams_super_8_has_absolute.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture<\/a> managed to catch up with Abrams himself and asked him point blank if it was indeed the case that <strong>Super 8<\/strong> was a prequel\/sequel to the 2008 monster film. While Abrams complimented them on their reportage, he shot down the story they ran in no uncertain terms, saying  that <strong>Super 8<\/strong> &#8220;has nothing whatsoever to do with <strong>Cloverfield<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So we do believe Abrams or is he lying to help preserve the surprise of what <strong>Super 8<\/strong> actually is? Who knows? I somehow don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll even get a definitive answer when the trailer debuts this weekend in front of <strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong>. No matter how the final film turns out, at least the promotion will keep us entertained for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Speculation as to what JJ Abram&#8217;s top secret project Super 8 continues to swirl around the internet. When the news first broke earlier this week, many thought that this could be a sequel to Cloverfield, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/06\/super-8-is-not-a-cloverfield-sequel\/\" title=\"SUPER 8 Is Not A CLOVERFIELD Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[810,3,826,2738],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-cloverfield","8":"tag-coming-soon","9":"tag-jj-abrams","10":"tag-super-8"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}