“Cloverfield” Creator J.J. Abrams to Produce “Mystery on Fifth Avenue”
“Cloverfield” and “Lost” creator JJ Abrams is to make a new mystery movie: “Mystery on Fifth Avenue,” based on a New York Times article. Writers Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky have been hired to adapt it into a film, with Marc Evans overseeing for the studio.
Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to the article by Penny Green about the owners of a New York house who discovered secret panels and hidden clues in their home which led them on a scavenger hunt.
The trade daily says the mystery involved “a poem, a book, a soundtrack and a host of historical figures”.
Abrams will produce the film through his company, Bad Robot.
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Watch The First Four Minutes Of ‘Cloverfield’
There’s been plenty of hype for the new feature film from JJ Abrams, the man behind hit TV series Lost and Alias. And here’s a little taster …
The first trailers for Cloverfield debuted six months ago and were, as you’d expect, fairly cryptic. Rather than climaxing with the name of the film, the screen simply presented a date: “01.18.08″ (for the US release) and a line revealing that Abrams was producing. Since then it has slowly become clear that this is an apocalyptic monster-hits-New York tale, with street-level, Blair Witch-style shaky handheld cameras replacing the usual panoramic helicopter shots of the Big Apple’s destruction.
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