What the heck is Cloverfield?

Forget all the talk of Indiana Jones IV, or Transformers, what has really been lighting up the geekily gossip-ridden sites on the ‘net these past few days has been word on a new, top-secret film currently riding under the name Cloverfield.

While that’s a code name for something else, it sounds like a pleasant drama starring Keira Knightly and some bland male lead. But nope… It’s much more exciting than that.

According to the reports, Cloverfield’s plot finds a massive beastie attacking New York and is filmed from the point of view of scared citizens with camcorders. So far, the “official” website is blank and the movie itself has been in hushed development at Paramount, but the studio wants to launch a teaser trailer in front of Transformers in the States this week, so if you happen to go and see those robots in disguise at a cinema in the UK or US, you might be in luck…

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