Abrams Talks '1-18-08'

Expect a lot more from this one

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Tuesday, July 10th 2007 at 12:58 PM

I can only wonder if Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams are kicking themselves over the success of the teaser trailer for the mysterious 1-18-08. You may wonder what I mean, but really, is there any chance this movie can live up to the hype it experienced in a six day span? The Internet is buzzing all over the place and for a couple of days there it felt like all I was posting about was this movie.

Now, the silence has been broken (sort of) as producer J.J. Abrams dropped Ain't It Cool News a line and lead us to believe there is more scavenger hunting to do.

Here is what he had to say:

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. 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, are you heading off to the Net to search or will you wait? If you haven't seen the trailer it just went online at Apple, click here to give it a peek.