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The merits (or lack thereof, depending on your opinion) of Iron Man 2 aside, it was worth forking over the ten bucks to finally get a glimpse of Abrams’ Super 8, a project shrouded in the kind of secrecy Abrams likes in his film’s publicity (Think Cloverfield.)
For those who haven’t caught the trailer in theaters, Paramount has now released an official version online. It doesn’t offer much. It’s 1979 and there’s a train carrying classified Air Force cargo from Area 51. We can hear a secretive phone narration of the train making its progress, but then an old pick-up truck meets it in a head-on collision. Something survived the explosive crash and it’s busting its way out of the train car.
That’s about it, right? Well, thanks to some very good fan research, which /Film has gathered rather nicely, that’s certainly not all that’s going on in the trailer. For instance, in case you wondered what those letters that quickly run across a camera lens spell, it’s “Scariest Thing I Ever Saw”. That’s just a taste of Super 8‘s viral marketing campaign that is well under way.
