The more we find out about J.J. Abrams ’ mysterious Super 8 moving-picture show , the more Steven Spielberg thumbprints we start spotting . Abrams ’ latest interview with theLA Timesincludes a few details , which flesh out some of the clues and plot points we spottedin the fresh trailer .
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Here ’s the film ’s first literal plot description , which seems to connect the small town to the railroad train tragedy we saw in theteaser drone back in May :
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Super 8 takes its name from the Eastman Kodak film format that became a sensation with amateur film - God Almighty in the former 1960s and represent a rite of passing for several generations of aspiring managing director , among them Spielberg and Abrams . The Paramount Pictures acquittance is set in Ohio in 1979 and usher in a troupe of six youngsters who are using a Super 8 television camera to make their own zombie movie . One fateful dark , their projection fill them to a lonely stretch of rural railway system tracks and , as the camera rolls , calamity work stoppage – a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire . Then something emerges from the wreckage , something decidedly inhuman .
The LA Times was privy to about 30 second of Super 8 footage include “ an especially savage destruction of a gas station ” and “ a grievous father - Logos conversation . ” mash up some acute alien action with household drama appeal to Spielberg , who ’s no stranger to doing the same thing , in films like E.T. Apparently , Super 8 is full of heavy clobber , include the “ little - town factory death that is very much of the actual worldly concern , ” even before you lend to the mix an escaped extraterrestrial that was being handle like freight - train cargo , on the route to Area 51 .
Talking to the Times , Abrams expands some more on the excited turmoil surrounding his six core character reference :
“ This is a movie about overcoming exit and find your room again and finding your own vox , ” Abrams said . “ A boy who ’s lose his mother and the man who ’s lose his wife . There ’s this father who , because of the era , never really had to be the parent . He ’s a good man , he works hard , he ’s a surrogate in the town , but he ’s never ill-treat up as father . ”
Spielberg is n’t the only famous director that Super 8 is draw in from — with its small cast of six child , Rob Reiner ’s Stand By Me is constantly mention as a touchstone for this 1979 - lay picture . Interestingly enough , Abrams seek the advice of Reiner for cast , as well as Let Me In ’s Matt Reeves .
Meanwhile , as we mentioned yesterday , if you were wondering why the euphony in the trailer sounded so familiar it ’s because James Horner ’s Cocoon theme ( thanks for the tipKatey Rich ) .
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So this is what we learned about Super 8 :
It ’s set in 1979 in Ohio
It star 6 kids
The Super 8 refer to the camera the 6 kids use to make their own zombi motion-picture show ( a “ moving-picture show within the movie”-type thing )
The film begins with “ small - town mill death ”
The main character ’s family is missing its mother , peradventure from the tragedy
Influences admit James Horner , E.T. and Stand By Me
Friday Night Lights and Early Edition ’s Kyle Chandler is in it
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