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[brettoniasam]

I think there'll be another trailer, but it will be online only.

I honestly don't expect to see any more commercial ads on TV or theatrical previews. I believe the whole point of the viral campaign by JJ is to prove that he *can* sell a movie by word-of-mouth via Internet without having to shell out millions of bucks to Madison Avenue for traditional marketing.

[InAFieldofClover]

Uh... guys. Season four of "Lost" begins airing in February. Why would they release the new trailer a month after the film hits theaters? D'oh!

[DougBThree]

[Finch]

I'd say early to mid December would be an educated guess. I would guess they'd want to steer more people online with the next trailer and you'd need to give the new people a chance to catch up. Also most movies seem to start their advertising campaigns a month or so in advance.

[Lawlbringer]

Well we only have a teaser.

No trailer and definitely no TV spots.


Most movies have a trailer at least 3 or 4 months pre-release.

Then the TV spots during that last month (and a half, sometimes).

[Finch]

Keep in mind too that JJ didn't foot the bill for this film. Paramount isn't going to rely on untested marketing schemes. They'll want some sense of traditional marketing.

[Matt Dark]

Maybe this is all a sort of weird puzzle for a new trailer

[DougBThree]

[Matt Dark]

Sorry maybe I should have explained a little further. In Lost if you went to Oceanicflight815.com and you did certain things with the seating charts you were able to see sneak peeks at second season trailers and found websites which showed deleted scenes from the first season. So maybe this is kind of like that, there's an obvious puzzle (i think, so maybe not so obvious) in the flavor droids. Maybe once we crack that or find Jamie's lost stuff (doubtful but who knows). Maybe it'll unlock a trailer. Who knows?

[DougBThree]

I see. Fascinating. It certainly could happen. For many of the clues we've received, they were more or less handed to us, or didn't require much deduction. But I think they showed us with the photo->translation->Macdooble review->Tagruato.jp chain of events that they aren't afraid to challenge us a bit.

From what I've read, the consensus on the flavor bots is that the Flash has been decompiled, and there's nothing hidden there but who knows?

[casemyo]

[Euchre]

Following the pattern of the first trailer in a way, I could easily see the second trailer being something about Tagruato and it's subsidiaries. I think something like what we saw at the party, where we see something at the beginning that focuses on and elaborates a little on a character, seems to be leading us to something mundane, interrupted by a mysterious and then catastrophic event - the emergence of the monster. Basically instead of seeing Rob being thrown a surprise party, it could be people working on Chuai station, a tanker, even a board meeting at Tagruato - and then somehow our monster interjects itself into the situation. Chances are good when we start seeing this second trailer, we might very well NOT know it's about 1-18-08. There might be a relatively sneaky hint (how much screen time did the Slusho shirt get?), but only when the unmistakeable monster is heard or even when we are just shown the date will we be made aware of the subject of the trailer.

The formula worked before and sparked a surge of interest, it could again. This time of course people will have a LOT more to find when they see it.

[tinytim]

Maybe....
Operations center on Chuai station leading in a tanker to dock for loading of oil/DSN. Pouring rain outside mainly done by radar and nav instruments. One moment tanker is there on screen next nothing.....then ROOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR. Whole rig shakes, alarms blaring sparks, fires. Mayday message sent out....... cut to receving end in Tagruato headquarters....shaky image fire around.....(garbled message hard to make out words)"Somethings attacking station" ROOOAAA.......cuts to dead air.

Then maybe Rob in a meeting late on the night of the party being intropduced to this footage and having to create press release or some such spin about an industrial accident even thopugh he thought he heard attacking and the roar.

[Matt Dark]

or this!

Kids are playing around near the docks and they hear something from the water and in the dark near the statue they see sparks and a giant hand swipe the SOL smacking the head into some buildings, the kids with their handheld duck and cover to see the hand come pick the head back up and knock around some buildings, but you dont' see the monster, just a dark scratchy filmed figure of a giant claw/hand/thing.

[tinytim]