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(via EmpireOnline)


Sorry Cloverfield fans, it looks like your hopes for a prequel/sequel/ biopic of the creature are being thwarted by mean ol’ JJ Abrams: according to the man himself, his new secret project, Super 8, is not linked to the sneakily marketed monster movie.

Vulture followed up their report from earlier this week about the new project's ties to that film by tracking down the man himself at an event to get what specifics they could prise from his tricky, specifics-evading mouth.

"You have to check out the trailer, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with Cloverfield, despite your expert reporting."

Zing, as we believe the kids say.

As for what it actually is about? Abrams isn’t spilling. "I won’t be able to tell you until it’s done," he told the blog. Which makes it sound like it’s so top secret, Abrams hasn’t even told himself yet. Now that’s commitment.

So everything right now is speculation – though the current thinking is that it’ll be another low-budget outing with amateur filmmakers capturing something strange in their footage. We won’t really know until midnight tonight in the US, when the trailer starts showing in front of Iron Man 2.