I thought he already was an alien in the ad campaign.I remember reading all that stuff back in the day. I could swear they said he fell from space
I think the premise behind all that was that this company was collecting some supplement from the ocean, that being produced from, or directly involved in making clover into the monster it was. The effects the cloverlings have on humans seems to suggest it's produced by them.
There is a meteor impact of some sort in the beginning of the found tape, apparently it either disturbs clover, or is in fact the being. It could go either way.
This is all wrong
I've only experienced the ad campaign from an aggregate source someone posted on the movie board back then but that seemed to be the jist of it.
There's some energy supplement that they are getting from the ocean. Monster inexplicably wakes up starts attacking. First scene on found footage has a ufo striking the ocean.
Semi right. Theyre getting it FROM the monster. And its not a ufo, its a satellite, which is what kinda connects to the second movie because thats the department John Goodmans character worked in.
What woke the monster was the drilling.
Thanks a little bit more of it is coming back to be now. But there has to be more with the satellite. If all that's the only case it seems like a really random detail to add to make a loose connection with an unrelated movie.
Well the real biggest connection between the movies is the Japanese company tagaruto. They were the ones that were mining the monster for the seabed nectar that they were putting in Slusho (which is basically JJ Abrahams calling card), they were the ones that OWN the satellite that fell, they woke up the monster in the first one, they were the company that John Goodman worked for and the guy in the first movie had gotten a job with in Japan.