(CelebNMusic247-News) J.J. Abrams Teases fans with new Stranger Trailer
The mastermind behind the reboot of Star Trek and the man at the helm of the Star Wars franchise 7 thru 9 is at it again with his newest Bad Robot production a mystery sci-fi novel set to hit during the Halloween season.
It another hush-hush production from J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot which the production company does two things very well: secrecy and hype, so elements of each are to be expected whenever a new Bad Robot project is announced.
However, we weren’t expecting a mysterious teaser trailer entitled simply “Stranger,” which was shot in black and white and featured some strange imagery of a near-drowned man walking up a beach, all with a voiceover that gave very little away.
Check the new teaser Stranger:
For a while this trailer left many puzzled, since it was difficult to imagine Abrams committing to a new major project with Star Wars Episode VII looming on the horizon. It transpires, however, that Stranger isn’t a movie or TV series at all; the trailer is actually for a new novel devised by Abrams and written by Doug Dorst (“Alive in Necropolis”), which seems to be titled simply S.
Thanks to Bleeding Cool, who dug up some coverage of the book that was published on The Huffington Post in May, showing a strange postcard sent from Brazil.
Check the clues:
Publisher Mulholland Books describes “S.” as a “multilayered literary puzzle of love and adventure,” and hints that there may be multimedia elements to the story, with further expansions available online and in the real world. The book’s story will also be told in “in the margins… the hand-scribbled notes, questions, and confrontations of two readers.” No details, of course, about who the two readers might be, but Mulholland promises that “S.”, “will be a literary event, and is truly a love letter to the printed word.”
The entire marketing effort so far has been incredibly cryptic, even for Bad Robot, and it’s frankly difficult to dig out a possible plot that connects a man being washed up on a beach, a man with his lips sewn shut, a postcard from Brazil, and some strange terminology referring to birds. Of course, confusing and apparently unconnected clues are all to be expected in a mystery novel, but with so little known about the plot it’s difficult to find anything to really grip onto. Whatever happened to the good old days of murders committed in locked rooms?
