Movies
Abrams: 'Cloverfield' was made for TV
Published Wednesday, Apr 23 2008, 13:02 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
The hit monster movie, which Lost co-creator Abrams produced, follows a group of Manhattan twentysomethings as they navigate through New York during an attack from a giant monster.
Abrams told Reuters: "The thing about this movie - probably more than any I think - is that it is better on DVD than in the theatre. Because the movie is like a videotape. It lives on your TV. In many ways, it is supposed to be viewed on a [TV] monitor."
Shot in a hand-held, digital home movie style, the $25 million budgeted Cloverfield went on to gross $166 million at the worldwide box office.
Abrams is currently working on a new Star Trek film, a franchise he hopes to reinvent with realism.
"The challenge of [Star Trek] is to take something that - despite the baggage of what came before - was imaginative and unreal and make it feel as real as possible."
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