In Amerika draait Super 8 ondertussen in de bioscopen, en mogen wij in Europa tot 11 Augustus wachten. Nu had de website FirstShowing.net een interview met J.J. Abrams over de film, het monster en voor al de Amblin sfeer. Dit is een bepaald soort films die over vriendschap gingen en in de jaren tachtig heel erg veel gemaakt werden. Let er wel op dat het interview wat kleine SPOILERS bevat.

What was your original goal with Super 8? Was it to tell another Amblin-like story, that I don't think we see much of nowadays?

J.J. Abrams: The original goal sort of evolved. The original goal was to do a movie that was about that time in my life and my friends' lives making these Super 8 films. It evolved into telling a story that was a sort of genre, monster movie as well. But the weird thing about doing the movie was just about the Super 8 era for me, is that that time was so impacted by and influenced by the movies of Spielberg and Amblin that it was impossible to separate those two things.

So while the movie never began as an homage to the Amblin films or Spielberg films, it began as a revisiting of a time in my life that was massively influenced by the Spielberg films. So I can't separate those movies from that time in my life. And the odd thing is that in this movie, clearly... I called Steven the first time I had this idea to do a movie, the day I thought of it, I called him up...

The thing is that I realized once he said he wanted to be involved, one of the challenges of the process was going to be I couldn't possibly have a Spielberg poster in the kids' rooms. But you think about it, how could a kid be into doing movies in 1979 and not have Jaws, not have Close Encounters? That would be impossible. So it's a little bit conspicuously absent from the movie. But the truth is that they are massively important to me, that time and those films. I tried to make Charles into more of a Carpenter/Romero, disaster movie kid than the more mainstream... but there's no way that kid would not have been a Spielberg fanatic.