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Latest ‘Super 8’ Viral Introduces the Rocket Poppeteers
Man do I miss Slusho, the fun viral marketing campaign that kicked off the Cloverfield hype. With J.J. Abrams now getting behind the camera himself for Super 8, the Steven Spielberg/Amblin collaboration, the viral roll-out began the second the teaser trailer hit the web. Words hidden with the trailer pointed to a website that counted down to 11PM EST last night. What would happen at zero hour? Find out below!
The boys over at Super 8 News are on top of their shit:
“The following newspaper articles are all that has been found in regards to the ending of the countdown on scariestthingieversaw.com . I’m going to have to take the word of the guys at unfiction for this since I don’t have a printer, but you can verify it for yourself if you do.
At the following screen (after the 20 lines load up) type .PRINT RSCOM8 and hit enter.
What you get when you print from this screen are the following two newspaper articles:”
“The only other command that works in the terminal is .REENTER and it prompts you to mount a device and it doesn’t appear we can get any further at the moment. So what do you make of the newspaper articles? They do lead us to http://www.rocketpoppeteers.com which is currently not active, but could be another site in the marketing campaign, so keep your eyes open.“
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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