Aladygma?

JJ Abrams with George Lucas

What is Aladygma?

Is it the code name for a yet-to-be-announced JJ Abrams-produced film project?

Is it the code name for the expected Cloverfield sequel? Chances are it is none of the above. Everyone in Hollywood has no idea what I’m talking about when I bring up “Aladygma”.

And chances are it has absolutely nothing to do with a Cloverfield sequel, as I’m told that the project is currently dead at the moment (this could always change). If anything, “Aladygma” is either an internal codename used within Bad Robot or chances are, it’s a fan created code name that somehow slipped into the news reports of the online film media.

If anyone knows anything about “Aladygma” or any other JJ Abrams project, please mat.

Discuss: What would you like to see in a Cloverfield sequel?

  • Terd Fergussen
    Spelled backwards is interesting

    http://www.stresstips.com/archive/2664.htm
  • Hmm. In a Cloverfield sequel? How about my money back? Can't think of anything else.
  • Sauce
    I'd like to see It not happen. No more sequels!
  • Larry Leonardo
    JJ Abrams and George Lucas, sounds like a Fail to me, maybe they can make the 7th star wars LOL
  • Steelo
    In a Cloverfield sequel? More black folks holding the camera. That way it's last 5 minutes and I won't have to deal with it.
  • Hefty_lefty
    I think a Cloverfield sequel is a bad idea. I loved the movie just as it is. A lot of people I know didn't like the fact that it didn't explain the monster. I thought that was a good idea. I mean, if you were in that situation, do you really think you would have enough time to sit down and go, "Oh, this is where it came from.." No you would be running for your life, trying not to get eaten. Also, I doubt that the military would just openly tell everyone in the city what was going on, its super-duper top secret, like area 51. I think that if they tried to make another movie, they would ruin the whole feel of the first one. But, thats just my opinion.
  • Joe
    A steadycam.
  • fellaface
    would yall man up and quit whining about the shaky cam, that made the movie what it was. it made it feel real.
  • Kheas
    check out the web site www.aladygma.com interesting
    00/11/22/88? what does in all mean?
  • ropert
    "Aladygma" is the Mike Nichols produced Diane Sawyer biopic he's been shopping around for the last couple of years.
  • Dustin Ravize
    So I try to take the main root words here from "Aladygma." it sounds like Aladdin mixed in with my grandma.

    Didn't J.J. Abrams speak of some Arabian Night movie a while back, or something relating to that?
  • sidewalkgod
    good lord......i really think alot of people have forgotten what the movie is and that is a fresh take on the monster movies from the 50's and 60's. i just saw cloverfield and i was completely happy with what i saw.
    abrams has a vision par none and i think he is a genius the likes cinema and television needed. don't agree? well you are the one talking about him and/or his products. If he was so bad at what he does or his movie/shows were bad or not worth watching, why are you?
    A sequel would be amazing and i have total faith in abrams in delivering an experience. That is the best word for this man's work. An experience.
  • IG
    My G5 was just stolen so I'd like to see CLOVERFIELD eat the thieves who stole three years of my life.

    Aside from that I'd like a continuation of the story giving us more pieces to the puzzel, more information. You'd have to come up with a good reason for the storytelling method of the handheld camera as well as more characters for us to care about.

    Or just leave it alone. I don't know. They're already doing the manga prequel so why not a sequel to ruin the first one?
  • l\/l1$$1l\l&0
    00/11/22/88
    11,2,2008
    2,11,2008 only logical dates.
    unless if it is to be made in far future
    maybe this is the time era it takes place.
    animefan39 im me with info.
  • I don't know if it applies, but there is a part of the brain called the amygdala. In the book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman says that when we have a fight or flee response (or any kind of emotional overreaction) what's happening is that we're shorting past our rational minds to the emotional amygdala.

    So maybe "aladygma" is misspelled?
  • D
    A tripod.
  • Kheas
    maybe we're seeing it all wrong. maybe it's A Lady Gma? "Gma" could be an abreviation for something. Just a thought.
  • Erick
    it would be kool to see the sequel be about the army. Some army men have cameras on their guns and helmets so i think it would be pretty kool if it showed them trying to fight the monster and stuff.
  • James
    Wait a minute, why is the cloverfield sequel dead?
  • TheTobi
    I think it may be a horror film based on what I read at this site. Deals with adrenaline and this part of the brain called the Amgydala, or Aladygma backwards.

    http://www.stresstips.com/archive/2664.htm

    "You jump into the shower and notice out of the corner of your eye a large spider on the wall above you. You freeze with fear and your heart starts to beat rapidly. What has happened?


    The brain's visual cortex has sent a signal of danger to the amgydala which then instructs the adrenal gland to start pumping adrenaline and cortisol to increase heart rate and prepare you for *flight or fight*. It's a good system in times of crisis."
  • James, from what I understand, the huge drop in box office after the opening weekend probably is to blame. Not to say that a Cloverfield 2 won't ever happen, it's just for now the momentum dropped and from what I hear, the project is no longer being actively developed.
  • TheTobi
    Also, I don't think aladygma.com is real. Think it is fan-made, cause the 11/22/88 thing i took as a date. The only thing I found that happened on November 22, 1988 was the reveal of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber...doubt that they'll make a movie about that...uness its a hint at the wonder woman movie(!)...the whole invisible jet? Heh...I'm just kidding myself now...
  • Jerry Butler
    "it's still alive" - end of Cloverfield movie





    Afraid not. lol
  • dmfo
    yes please.

    Perhaps a continuation from a survivor who made it across the bridge.
  • Kheas
    i looked up the owner of the web site at whois and got this:


    PSI-USA, INC. DBA DOMAIN ROBOT

    as the owner.


    any ideas?
  • Everyone is saying that this sounds like a sequel to Cloverfield, but with what proof? Knowing the style of JJ Abrams, (he tends to deal with the mysterious "Mystery Box"), this new project will most likely be something completely unexpected and different from what everyone thinks it will be.
  • scar
    what a great picture. Only one is missing from that group, Spielberg!!!
  • hk
    Is there a particular reason why that picture is attached to the article?
  • Georgous
    I keep telling my friends that if they were to do a Cloverfield sequel they should a sequel that would contrast the original. Put it in the same place and time just from the military point of view and with more of a traditional movie feel. Stable cameras with more plot.
  • CF1
    I know there was a huge drop at the box office after week 1, but through Presidents day, Cloverfield has grossed over $145 million worldwide (domestic and international) and it doesn’t even hit Japan until April.

    Add in what's sure to be very good DVD sales, this movie has been nothing short of a cash cow for Paramount.

    I guess I'd be nervous too after such a large drop, but I still think that first weekend was a bit misleading with regards to total receipts...Paramount counted Thursday night grosses and Sunday business was much higher then a regular Sunday due to the MLK holiday on Monday...it had nowhere to go but way down the following weekend.

    JJ said he wanted America to have its own iconic monster. I don't know the exact count of Godzilla movies, but there were several and it became an institution. If Cloverfield remains as a stand-alone movie then there is no chance this would happen.
  • Dustin Ravize
    Looks like Lucas and JJ finally met up to discuss Star Wars Episode VII: Attack of the Cloverfields
  • Matt
    Star Wars Episode VII: Return of the Digital Sand. i love Abrams' marketing strategies.
  • Dustin Ravize
    Nahhh Digital Sand was ended when Spider-man 3 was made.
  • i just looked at www.aladygma.com, highlighted the small type and copied and pasted it. i got:

    start date (followed by the 8 digit code)

    © a l a d y g m a (after the 8 digit code)

    coming soon next day? (in the bottom right corner)

    all very interesting...
  • a11mark
    Well if nothing happens on that site tomorrow then you know its a fake
  • sidewalkgod
    i just clicked on the link and the page is down. as fake as santa playing quarters with easter bunny at a bar owned by the tooth fairy.
  • i just looked again, worked for me! try again

    www.aladygma.com
  • $hn@zy
    Ok as far as Kheas and "A Lady GMA" someone said it was a Diane Sawyer biopic, well "A lady" would definetely be Diane Sawyer and "GMA" would be her morning show GOOD MORNING AMERICA.
  • Robert
    Intersting coincidence. This was posted on Reason magazine this moring and mentions the "amygdala" in relation to the problem of Free Will. The two words are so similar it seems like there must be a relation.

    http://www.reason.com/blog/#125050
  • big daddy
    if i could choose what would be in a cloverfield sequel.. i would like to see 1) the aftermath.. 2) some answers, like maybe in the form of lily finding stuff online or in the news or from the military. 3) maybe a lot of news coverage pieces, with maybe a steadier cam for all the punk ass people that caused the sequel to be put on hold because they can petiition to have beer sold at Six flags so they can get drunk and ride a roller coaster, but they cant bear to watch a shaky cam effect on a movie when they are sober. 4) more clovie ass kickery.
  • It is an anagram for amygdala - a part of the brain.
  • Could be about Shadow People :up:
  • Tim
    After doing a [very] brief search of 'aladygma' i found this:

    http://00112288.blog.fr/

    came up with those numbers and a picture.
    figured i might as well share, though i'm not sure its related.
  • mark berlly
    i uh typed Aladyma in youtube....

    Got this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufILZjH7qDc
  • Dustin Ravize
    Now...that is pretty cool
  • Not another one! I wish JJ and crew would just come out and tell us what the heck is going on. This stuff drive me crazy, especially when all you see is a little grainy image of a film strip.
  • Clayton
    MORE PARASITES. MORE 'CLOVER'. AND POSSIBLY A SOLID ORIGIN.
  • cedricpatrick
    Im split on what I thought of the movie, I followed the viral marketing campaign, and the prospects behind the elusive backstory that was built up was much more interesting to me than the prospects of a mystery monster stomping NYC. If they are able to continue this franchise, I think that could validate this first movie for many viewers.

    "Cloverfield" is only the name of the goverment case file, the movie, clearly is only a small glimpse of the story that Abrams and crew created in the viral marketing campaign. I would hope a second movie would jump in a completely different direction from this one, a movie that would expand upon the context of the "Cloverfield" incedent, rather than a silly retelling of the same exact night from military POV.

    Imagine the progression of the franchise and overall storyline moving backwards, as the end of the movie hints at when the mysterious object (IE: sattelite fragment) plunges into the ocean. The story behind this movie leaves so many options for continuation, continuation that can still deliver the same thrilling enigma that the first one delivered.

    So to me, if they can deliver on a sequel, and build an awesome multi-movie story here, Id be much more enthused and interested by Cloverfield itself
  • ok the video on youtube was cool, but i could easily of made that, not to sound like a jerk, but it wouldnt be very hard.
  • it was also added on the same day as this article was posted. someone made it.
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