Our friends at CloverfieldClues have pointed us to a video which appears to be the first behind the scenes footage from the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster flick Cloverfield. The footage, which can be seen after the jump, shows people running down a city street and military vehicles in action. In one of the shots you will notice a striped SEPHORA store. Apparently the store is a fake creation to make downtown Los Angeles look more like New York City. There are Sephora stores in Los Angeles, but all three appear to be in malls.
Eric Richardson has posted a photo of the fake Sephora store and the included public filming notice for a Paramount movie titled Slusho. Check out the notice to the right. Click on the image to enlarge. Looks like the filming took place late last month, days before the Cloverfield trailer premiered with Transformers. Which just goes to show you we’re still picking up on clues from almost one month ago. And again, the video footage can be seen after the jump.
To Paramount Legal: The video and attached photos were obtained on public property.
The guy who shot the video (user: askawetback) writes:
Footage I shot on the night those bastards from cloverfield where shooting on my street they where using a megaphone and kept evryone in the building awake for days they also fd’up the traffic like every other big budget movie does (who cares about those stupid taxpayer drivers?) this was also shot in the same location where prime is on the floor at the end of that movie.
July 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
wow… i wanna live in LA now
July 21st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Could this footage be part of the film?????
July 21st, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Great work
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 am
i doubt it…..the guy who sent it in sounded pissed they were there….doesnt sound like he was with Abrams..
July 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Does anyone else think that people are paying WAY too much attention this film? At least in the amount of detail I’m seeing. Maybe I’m just cynical because I’ve seen films that get all this attention end up being really, really bad when they get to the theater.
I saw the trailer during “Transformers.” The trailer was okay. Looks kinda cool. But so does the trailer for “I Am Legend” and no one’s talking much about that.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Ok, the trailer for “I am Legend” was very cool but the movie sounds a lot like “28 Days Later” AND has Will Smith, so the last thing you should expect is a lot of attention to it.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Erico: good point, but, then again, so far everything about “Cloverfield” looks like a disaster movie done in New York. Gee — that’s *never* been done before! :)
I say this partly in jest. I get that people are interested in certain films when the hype builds up but, from what I can see, there’s not enough material yet to really get interested in, at least to the extent where people are freeze-framing trailers and dissecting individual frames. Maybe I’m just not getting it.
July 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
“I Am Legend” is based on a book that was written loooooooong before “28 days later”. It was the inspiration for the original “Night of the Living Dead”. Read it. Books are good.
July 24th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Jeff: I completely forgot about 3942 other disaster movies with New York as background :-) (Really!)
IMO what makes the “Cloverfield” hype bigger is the fact no one was really expecting it and no one is really sure about what it will turn into.
In the end this could be a great movie or a major flop (ok, but in this area nothing beats “Waterworld: ). Time will tell
July 24th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Spaz: That’s a great point I ofrgot to mention. “I Am Legend” is a movie with Will Smith, that looks a lot like “28 days later” and is based on a great novel, meaning people can have opinions about it, even before there’s any promotion.
On the other hand, o one knows what to expect about “Cloverfield”. Maybe it will change after JJ speaks at ComicCon, but until then, hype survives.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
WO WO WO WO!!! i am legend is based on The OMEGA MAN, the omega man was based on THE LAST MAN ON EARTH film and novel and was not the insperation for night of the living dead at all, it was around the same time and was made because of the whole zombie era