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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: Cloverfield
Description: Cloverfield, or one of its many other names, was greenlit in a shroud of secrecy, and that secrecy continued throughout production.Actors were auditioned without even being told what they were auditioning for, just that it was a new untitled J.J. Abrams project, and the Abrams name was enough to whet the appetites of not only the actors involved, but also the general public.After a teaser trailer debuted alongside Transformers in the summer of 2007, fans were desperate to find out anything about this mysterious film, titled 1-18-08, with online theories suggesting it...