J.J. Abrams Is Shaking Things Up

Apparently the Cloverfield producer has decided to make a fun little throwback to the 70s disaster films of yore. Abrams will be producing an untitled project in the vein of 1974’s “Earthquake” but it will not be a sequel. We can all breathe a little easier now. Read on for more details.

The project is untitled and not intended to be a remake of Universal’s 1974 movie “Earthquake.” That film, released in the middle of that decade’s disaster-flick frenzy that famously used “Sensurround” — really just cranked-up bass — to enhance the experience and became part of its popular studio tour.

Details of the story are being kept in a seemingly tremor-proof vault, though as is Abrams’ modus operandi, relationships will be at the core of the project. Abrams arguably rewrote the rules for disaster flicks with “Cloverfield,” which thrust the big story to the background by making the audience see the bedlam through the prism of a personal relationship.

Could we be seeing the beginnings of a “Cloverfield”-like experience with a natural occurance? That would be so friggin’ cool. Everything sounds solid, and bringing in David Seltzer, the writer of the ORIGINAL “Omen” just makes things so much more sexy. Here’s to hoping this film is everything that it could be!

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