Super 8 JJ Abrams Video Interview

Collider has posted a video inteview with JJ Abrams as he discussed Super 8. A few highlights is talking about effort put into keeping things secret, the viral marketing campaign, the use of the Amblin logo that often preceeded some of Steven Spielberg's greatest films, and that there is an Easter Egg involving Leonard Nimoy.

MTV Movie Awards Super 8 TV Spot

A new TV spot aired as part of the preview for the MTV Movie Awards 2011. The spot includes a lot of new footage with an emphasis on the action. Super 8 hits theatres this Friday. In addition a new Harry Potter trailer was revealed. Thanks to Feris Othman for the link.

Super 8 Cast Interviews

Shock Till You Drop has posted a nearly 10 minute interview with the cast of Super 8. It is an edited piece from 3 seperate interview segments Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, and a group interview with the remaining group of child actors. In a weird way it is interesting to watch because Kyle is the most experienced actor of the group so was in full sales mode, Elle is in charm mode and the group just seemed to be having fun and enjoying the experience. Thanks to Feris Othman for the link.

The Story Behind Super 8

Hero Complex has written a long article that gets into the origins of Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams and them coming together to work on Super 8. It turns out this ideas for this movie started back in their childhood. The full article is here but below are segments of interest.

The finished film is, in a way, three stories projected on one screen — the history of Spielberg, the childhood of Abrams and of the characters from the script. The huge train crash in the film, for instance, takes on different shadings when you find out that the first movie Spielberg remembers watching in a theater was Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth,” which featured a spectacular collision of trains. It was later that the youngster carefully set up his Lionel train set so he could film his own wreck. In a moment of epiphany, the boy realized that with three cuts (train going left to right; train going right to left; trains crashing) he was telling a story with moving pictures.

“It was more than seeing someone’s movie and saying, ‘You know, I bet I’d get along with him.’ It was more than seeing a painting and thinking, ‘I bet I know what matters to that artist.’ This was an oddly personal thing never intended for viewing at least not in the context I was seeing it in. I always kept that in my heart and head.”

New TV Spot, Viral Comic

Super 8 is just a touch over a week away from release and the TV spots keep coming. Below is another one to enjoy as they start to incorporate some of the early very positive reviews the movie has received. In addition, if you hit your local comic book store and read current "Flashpoint" story arc, you will find a comic short story that explains some of the back-story behind the discovery of the alien in the film. Turns out it began with Sputnik. Of note is the use of a classic 1960's look and DC logo. Thanks to Feris Othman for the links.