{"id":10419,"date":"2010-10-11T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:23:26","slug":"abrams-super-8-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/abrams-super-8-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Super 8 Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, YouTube user <strong>wblankenship<\/strong> found out that <strong>J.J. Abrams&#8217;\/Steven Spielberg<\/strong> <em>Super 8 <\/em>was being filmed in his hometown of Weirton, West Virginia, so he went down to have a look at the set during filming and has posted a six minute YouTube video of the filming.<\/p>\n<p>Not many details have emerged about <em>Super 8<\/em>, but it is known that while using their Super 8 camera, a group of kids find and film something unexpected, alien life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Abrams-Spielberg0503101.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10420\" title=\"Abrams-Spielberg0503101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Abrams-Spielberg0503101.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just recently found out that the movie <em>Super 8 <\/em>was being filmed in my hometown and we walked down to see the set last night (10\/08\/10) during filming,&#8221; said Wblankenship. &#8220;There were a lot of military vehicles, soldiers, and 70&#8217;s cars. (We even caught glimpse of one of the stunt cars) The whole place was lit up by huge stadium lights and it looked like they were shooting with a camera on a big crane arm. Hope you enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wblankenship and other locals gathered to watch the proceedings. The video shows period cars and military vehicles, including a tank rolling down a street. Some of the military vehicles fired their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YqfIaa7ct3s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, YouTube user wblankenship found out that J.J. Abrams&#8217;\/Steven Spielberg Super 8 was being filmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,3202],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-super-8"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}