On July 5th, in our continuing Cloverfield coverage, we wrote an article titled “Has Cloverfield Gone Viral?” In the article, we wondered if a viral game site EthanHaasWasRight.com was really related to JJ Abrams top secret monster film.
I’m still unable to confirm that this website is related the Cloverfield, and I have my suspicions otherwise. The posting on the blogspot site were made over the past two days, and seem to suggest a Cloverfield link. The EthanHaasWasRight website is not new. It seems to have been up earlier last month, and was registed long before the 01-18-08.com website.
My posting was greeted by more than a couple angry replies. People didn’t understand why I would doubt the validity of this new viral game website. They had already been sucked into the game, and refused to believe they wasted their time. I hate to say I told you so but… well, I told you so. Producer JJ Abrams e-mailed AICN to set the record strait.
“Regarding the online stuff you posted: yeah, we’re doing some fun stuff on the web. But, obviously, if the movie doesn’t kick some massive ASS, who gives a rat’s about what’s online? So as you can imagine, we’re focusing mostly on THAT,” Abrams wrote. “For what it’s worth, the only site of ours that people have even FOUND is the 1-18-08.com site. The others (like the Ethan Haas sites) have nothing to do with us.”
So there you have it - Abrams says the Ethan Haas site is not legit. This also confirms that the Parasite movie website url that is going around the web is also not legit. I suspect that many people will refuse to believe this even now that JJ has come out of hiding to clear the air. Some people might say this is another part of the game. For those of you who believe that, or believe that this is actually a Voltron movie in disguise - there is truly no hope.
On the other hand, shortly after AICN posted the Abrams e-mail, a new site showed up - slusho.jp. As we’ve previously told you, one of Cloverfield’s on location production titles was Slusho. Hardcore fans of Abrams’ Alias may remember as the Slurpee-type beverage that Vaughn offers to Sydney in the second episode of the series. The website seems to be for the Slurpee-type beverage. Could this be one of the Cloverfield viral websites that had yet to be found (according to Abrams earlier tonight)? The domain was purchased on June 27th 2007, six days before the Cloverfield trailer hit theaters. But it is possible that someone knew about the production alias before the trailer’s release. So file this under “a possibility, but not confirmed”.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
the slusho site and cloverfield seem to be connected…Mike Vogul is wearing a
slusho shirt in the trailer (during the news broadcast-”wanna see whats on the
roof”) and on 1-18-08.com, in the party photo, the guy on the left pouring a drink into rob seems to be wearing a slusho shirt as well… the design is blurred but you can sort of make out the the slusho logo (the blue, red, white, color, and shape)
…compare them yourself! slusho.jp and http://www.1-18-08.com/
July 9th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
one of the actors in the trailer has a shirt that says slusho on it
July 9th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Diving into the “Ethan Haas” propaganda found me a couple good forums that led me to believe the Ethan Haas junk was actually related to an MMO or just an average video game coming out in the next couple of years. Plus the fact that http://www.1-18-08.com and the Ethan Haas sight are hosted by two completely different companies.
Now along those lines http://www.slusho.jp is hosted by Go Daddy, which kinda doesn’t tell me a whole lot or lead me anywhere, but http://www.1-18-08.com is hosted by Akamai - http://www.akamai.com/. Which has nothing to do with Go Daddy. And since Go Daddy seems to be mainstream for a hosting company, some average joe could have just scooped up the web address and spent too much time playing around in flash. But who knows, the website could just be a decoy by the JJ Abrams camp or it could be something completely different than what everyone thinks.
Side note: no this has nothing to do with Voltron. I think too many fanboys have left their zippers down too long while watching transformers and now have it glazed on their brain that studios are ready and willing to fulfill their 1980 childhood dreams of turning every 80’s cheesy cartoon into a multimillion dollar movie. While there may still be a Voltron movie in the future, this isn’t it.
JJ Abrams is a god though, he’s figured out how to get more than one genre/group of geeks interested in a movie they know nothing about.
Out.
July 10th, 2007 at 9:00 am
The slusho site seems to provide some potential hints to what type of monster could be involved in the film. In the history section, there is mention of a quest to the deep sea to find the magical ingredient turned a fish into a whale.
Pure speculation but if the site is indeed related to the movie, there are some potential hints about the film. Similar to the fake airline website that came out when Lost first aired, this Slusho site could work in the same manner.
July 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I am definetely thinking Slusho has something to do with it. Note the fact that the Slusho ‘company’ seems to be based in Japan. Listen to the trailer. ‘Rob’ is going to Japan.
Coincidence? I think not!
July 11th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
well what does 1-8-07 mean?
exaclty at 12:36 AM?
July 14th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
ok, so i just jumped on this crazed wagon this morning and already im obsessed, has anyone read the history of slusho? read it….it talkes about drinking the slusho and becoming HUGE! i dont know if that has anything to with it…….. ALSO I KNOW that the ethanhaaswasright.com people say that it is a fake blah blah blah…but i really wanna figure out the 3rd puzzle. any hints?
July 16th, 2007 at 1:28 am
01-18-08 (or 18-01-08, in australia) is the stated release date of the film.
July 16th, 2007 at 1:31 am
and, regarding “slusho!”, there is a clue to be found in the “history”, i believe. you probably have to be a hardcore “alias” fan to find it, though.
i personally think noriko was killed by the parasite, hence her disappearance. furthermore, i think the “ingredient” is foreign; extraterrestrial.
that’s all i can discern, this being the first i’ve ever heard of “slusho!”. i doubt “alias” has any clues anyway, i’ve watched the scene which mentions the drink and i found nothing in that.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
well, i just googled parasite movie seems the J.J. Abrams trailer on apple.com shows up #3…..thats got to mean something doesn’t it. I mean the apple movie site must have submitted some meta data for the word parasite in order for the search engines to pull it up.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Parasite+movie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
January 19th, 2008 at 10:45 am
The movie sucked-ass! J.J. Abrams should be ashamed of himself to say he was ever a Godzilla fan. Glad to see it was not another American wannabe Godzilla flick. Americans don’t do well with remakes of any Japanese Anime or live action movies. They have all came out bad. Other than that holding the camcorder thing only worked well in Blair Witch. Wait until this movie comes out on DVD, and even then, I would wait until is goes out of the New Release section to save your money. To start, the graphics sucked, the story was ok and there was more hype in the commercials about it being a giant monster movie. Instead, it was a guy trying to save his girlfriend. This movie is a cheap no thrills adventure.
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