SLUSHO!

Slusho / Cloverfield / Abrams / 1-18-08

Before Transformers, there was a trailer for a mysterious movie. It immediately got people buzzing. Many filmed it and put it on Youtube (which were then pulled down by Paramount). Paramount then released the trailer for download and viewing at Apple. Watch it, listen carefully, look for clues. Is it a Godzilla movie? A Voltron movie? A Rampage movie? Something else?

Note that the movie is produced by J. J. Abrams. Any info on IMDB? IMDB refers to it as Untitled J.J. Abrams Project but also has put up the a/k/a's of Cloverfield and Slusho.

Note also that the movie is in theaters on 1-18-08 and that means, of course head on over to http://www.1-18-08.com/ and you will see two pictures (update: three pictures as of July 12). What do they mean?

There's an ARG related to Ethan Haas which somehow people speculated was linked to this movie (it likely is for something else, though). On AICN Abrams has disavowed any connection to any sites related to Ethan Haas. Go there anyway, there are weird videos, fun games, and who knows if Abrams is simply misdirecting.
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
and the inevitable "response" at http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/

If you solve all the puzzles, you will get a chance to enter your name and e-mail address and there's a reference to August 1.

What Abrams does say on AICN is that there are other sites out there. In the trailer, Rob is heading off to Japan. So, what do we find but a weird Japanese website (in English) extolling the virtues of Slusho at http://slusho.jp/ which has a history and downloads. Read them and start googling the names. Similar to Ethan Haas, there's a chance to e-mail Satoshi AT slusho DOT jp (you'll get a simple e-mail back).

Sites at cloverfield.com and cloverfield.jp seem to have absolutely no connection to the movie.

There's a lot of speculation on the interwebs and, besides the above mentioned websites, you can head over to the following for more information:
http://www.slashfilm.com/tag/cloverfield/
http://projectcloverfield.com/
http://www.jasonwindsor.com/blog/

Meanwhile, there have been a lot of fake websites set up by now, which is inevitable.