What’s shaking with J.J. Abrams?
According to THR, Cloverfield producer J.J. Abrams is returning to the disaster genre and this time, instead of a monster, he’s going to interrupt the interpersonal lives of a bunch of boring 20-somethings with a big earthquake. Ok, I’m speculating about the boring 20-something part based on the Cloverfield template. Actually, details of the plot are being kept under wraps, but you know I’m right.
Abrams most recently sat in the director’s chair for the May 2009 relaunch of Star Trek featuring a bunch of boring 20-somethings in space.
For the moment, Abrams is only planning to produce the untitled earthquake project. The script is to be written by David Seltzer (The Omen).
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Tags: David Seltzer, J.J. Abrams, Star Trek
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JJ Abrams, the Irwin Allen of our time.
The Omen (remake) sucked.
That’s all I got.
Thanks Jeff. I was going to chime in with something similar about Omen.
I have to admit, Earthquake with its destruction of scale-model L.A. and some nameless, probably non-existent dam (seemed like they culled the idea from the real-life Mulholland Dam disaster) is pretty cool. They used to play it on AMC and TNT a lot when I was a kid and I ate it up.
I don’t know if anyone here’s seen 10.8, the TV movie from a few years back, but CGI just doesn’t cut it.
Cloverfield was a mostly fun, stupid ride, so I’ll wait until I see the trailer for this new earthquake flick before I make judgment.
Seltzer wrote the original Omen, for what it’s worth.
I also loved Earthquake when I was a kid. All those disasater movies. Hell, even Meteor.
I found Cloverfield to be occasionally fun, but the characters killed it for me.
One of the sadder moviegoing experiences of my life was being persuaded by my best friend to let him drive me up all the way up to Santa Rosa to see The Omen remake on opening day because he had free tickets. The car ride itself was actually great; his and everyone else’s wonderment at the movie troubled me, though, and made me sit him down later and have him watch the original.
Craig, I believe Seltzer just copied and pasted his whole script, with a couple of tweaks, haha.
Jeez, I didn’t even see he also wrote the remake.
Did he actually do any writing on it, or did they just touch up his original and had to give him a credit?
Probably the latter, Craig.