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Matt Reeves, the director for Cloverfield, has been taking interviews. Here is what he has to say:

MTV: ‘Star Trek’ Trailer Boldly Goes To ‘Cloverfield’ Audiences

… “Cloverfield” director Matt Reeves has told MTV News that Paramount has picked his monster flick as the venue to unveil the “Trek” trailer …
IGN: Exclusive: Cloverfield Director Speaks!

… when the first draft of the script came out it was Cloverfield. It’s always been Cloverfield …

… anyone who has seen the clips from the film knows that “Cloverfield” is the case name that the government has assigned to whatever or whoever is doing all that destruction in New York … “In the way that the Manhattan Project was the name of that program, that’s what this is” …

“We really wanted to make a movie where essentially, at the end of the day, it’s this giant monster movie, … and do it in this very [realistic] style as if it was found footage. [You] get to know these characters, and in a certain way [we got to] make a character relationship film.”

IGN: Exclusive: Cloverfield Director Speaks! Part Two

“The inspiration came from the poster of Escape from New York,” says Reeves of that darn head. “The poster had an image on it of the head of the Statue of Liberty and that image was nowhere in the movie! And it’s an incredibly provocative image. And that was the source that inspired [producer] J.J. [Abrams] to say, ‘Now this would be an interesting idea for a movie.’”…
…The idea, according to Reeves, is that since this footage has been found and is unedited, every time the camera cuts out indicates a jump forward in time. And in fact, the only cuts in the film are when the camera gets turned off…

… “That’s the way that our film is incredibly different from Blair Witch … So you’re going to see the monster, you’re going to see huge-scale destruction, you’re going to see a lot of crazy stuff!”
ShockTillYouDrop: Cloverfield Director Speaks!

At the last minute, when we were shooting the trailer, we wanted people to know - ’cause we hadn’t created the monster yet - that it was a giant monster movie, we wanted a tease of that. I jumped to the microphone and said the line, “I saw it! It’s alive! It’s huge!” And one of the most amusing things is I had come home and someone on the web had taken that section and started to do an analysis on it and thought I said, “It was a lion.”
IESB: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Cloverfield Director Matt Reeves!

[Slusho is] a connection, obviously, back to a reference to Alias and it’s part of the involved connectivity between that and there’s a - I don’t know what you could call it - a sort of “meta-story” that is part of - almost like an origin story - that is connected.

Is it true … the date in the film is actually [1-18-08]? No, that’s not true. The two ways people referred to the movie where by its codename, Cloverfield, because there was knowledge of that, and just by the date. … The date is just the date we come out and when everyone gets to see the movie.

Finnaly the “its a lion” thing has been debunked! Yay!

Enjoy the weekend and stay safe!

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