JJ Abrams' secret deepens...

Regular readers will know that we just can’t stay away from a nice piece of viral web work – even if it is just marketing for a movie like Batman sequel The Dark Knight.

And JJ Abrams – the man who created Alias and Lost, as well as directing M:I:III, is no stranger to puzzles and confounding expectations. So we’re not exactly surprised that two new websites are seemingly linked to his big secret project, the monster movie codenamed Cloverfield.

What we know for sure is it’s set in New York at a bloke’s leaving party. Shot almost entirely on digital camcorders, it details a terrible event that occurs, with the Statue Of Liberty coming off particularly badly (big French stone lady go boom) while our “heroes” scream and cry. Wouldn’t you. And we’ve reported previously that while Abrams is producing, the man behind the camera is Matt Reeves, a long time associate, while the script’s penned by Buffy, Alias and Lost writer Drew Goddard.

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