J.J. Abrams is making good use of his boyhood apprenticeship making super-8 movies.
The director of 2009's Star Trek and creator of TV's Lost revisits his childhood with this summer's Super 8, about a band of kids shooting a monster movie who end up documenting a train wreck that unleashes an alien force.
The movie is the most autobiographical he has worked on, Abrams said in an interview at CinemaCon where he showed off footage on Monday night.
The youths in Super 8 are doing exactly what the 44-year-old Abrams was doing three decades ago, when he was obsessed with making his own horror films and monster flicks. Abrams said it was uncanny and surreal re-creating those experiences for a big Hollywood movie.
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