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[Melodyman]

From JJ's lips..

"The Paramount Pictures release is set in Ohio in 1979 and introduces a troupe of six youngsters who are using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie. One fateful night, their project takes them to a lonely stretch of rural railroad tracks and, as the camera rolls, calamity strikes — a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire. Then something emerges from the wreckage, something decidedly inhuman."

[avr1991]

"decidedly inhuman" Doesnt have to be Aliens. The alternate energy source plays a key part in this. Which was made on earth.

JJ Also said "Look, I feel we need a little bit of a coming-out party because we are up against massive franchises and brands and most people don't know what 'Super 8′ means.".

So it could be something else as well as Super 8mm camera (or he could just be saying that because most people who are going to watch the film wont know of the ARG)

PS. i read the interview and it does contain some quite big plot spoilers (but i dont think they are relevent to the ARG)

[r.m]

Here's a link to the article - if anyone who hasn't read it would like to.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/sns-lat-entertainment-commercial-jj-abrams-super-8,0,6343492.story

This part at the end has me wondering --

JJ says:
"There's no book, there's no toy, there's no comic book. There's nothing. I don't have anything; I don't even have a board game, that's how bad it is."

What are we, chopped liver?
I mean, well, gee, you have an ARG ... don't you ... ?

[Melodyman]

Yes, well, the obvious plot point would be that Minker Sr. is hired by the gubmint to examine some new power source (possibly alien retrieved from some UFO crash somewhere) and while trying to reverse engineer said power source, something goes wrong and ....

one possibility would be that when something goes wrong it transforms Minker Sr. into whatever eventually pops out of the train wreck?? or whateveritis was exposed to this power source in the lab (thus the trailer pics) is transformed into our star.. perhaps a Coelacanth?!!
A giant prehistoric fish on the loose in Ohio!
Or maybe even ...Rick Roll!!!

Link Removed.. WTF? Adverts on YouTube before songs? Sick...
MUUhhhaaaahhhaaaaaa....

[ladywyntir]

oh no... :(

[kosmopol]

Rocket Mountaineer

Yes, I also wondered about this non-mention of our ARG in the line of promotion tools for the movie.

Was it his hidden wink to us?
Or perhaps... no, forget it...

[Xeno Lambrose]

"Alternative energy source" & "foreign matter"

[Dust King]

Re: "Alternative energy source" & "foreign matter"

[FilmEdge]

I don't know if "plucked" will prove hugely important in Dad-Minker's case, as such a circumstance has a general plot basis in many films and specifically Spielberg's CE3K for example:

Laughlin (Bob Balaban) was a cartographer who was "plucked" into service with the secret government contact team because he spoke French to translate for Lacombe. His main skill ended up breaking the ET-broadcast number code when he recognized the number sets as lat/long coordinates on Earth.

Similarly, Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) and the other contactees were "plucked" from obscurity by their alien psychic connection at random. Likewise his train hobby proved the key for the Govt camp escapees to find the Dark Side of the Moon base at Devil's Tower because he modeled his implanted thought instead of drawing it, so he knew the path to find it.

In this case, Minker Sr. had an applicable skill needed under a special circumstance and was thus involuntarily drawn (ordered) into joining this top secret discovery. Though he may well have cursed his special training, depending on what he found in the 'cave'.

[Roland_Deschain]

Foreign Matter and Alternative energy

[Xeno Lambrose]

Filmedge;

I understand the concept of the examples you cited, and agree that it is nothing new. It's just that to hear that someone has been "recruited, enlisted, drafted, selected, conscripted, or pressed into service" for one cause or the other seems much more common than the word "plucked."

Mysterio has been known for being grammatically correct (for the most part), yet to use of a word more associated with agriculture/harvesting just seemed peculiar.

And Roland, I agree that Minker, Sr. was no doubt studying living organisms, but again, Mysterio uses the term "foreign matter" related to "an alternate energy source." Why not say "foreign/unconventional/aberrant/abnormal/anomalous/alien organisms" rather than "foreign matter?"

In labs, often they will take precautions to prevent "foreign matter" from experiments.

The wording just seems odd, IMHO.

[FilmEdge]

Maybe he was moonlighting as the San Diego Chicken?

[Xeno Lambrose]

Hmm, not "ducking" the issue, but "plucking" and "clucking"?

Could the 3 dots be symbolic of our "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuking" 3 Stooges?

Perhaps they've (via Bridges' younger self in Tron:Legacy) been able to create Larry, Moe and Curly and they are the ones who are behind the ARG and are shapeshifters in the movie?

[Dust King]

[Xeno Lambrose]

Dustking;

You wrote "it could be a piece of technology found with the organism or a material found with the organism."

Yes, or perhaps an implement of technology within the organism that has been/ or has tried to be removed from "It."

Maybe "It" became dormant, or in an inactive state when this happened, and it wasn't "activated" until the power pole's exposed power line makes contact with the rail car.

And on the use of the activated, maybe Mysterio is referring to the "It" when he said in the e-mail (I believe) that something may have [been] "reactivated."