A black-and-white teaser video for filmmaker J.J. Abrams' mysterious project, "Stranger," opened the rumor floodgates. After his production company Bad Robot released the YouTube clip, which has a blank description, people began theorizing what it was teasing.
The footage shows a man sluggishly lifting himself out of water and onto his feet. Then, the camera spookily zooms into another person whose lips are sewn together.
Abrams is known for stirring buzz by keeping details unknown, as he did with the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness. He's set to direct the next Star Wars movies, but it's unlikely this is related to Star Wars: Episode VII, as Disney and Lucasfilm are spearheading those flicks.
Is the teaser for a film, show or book? Could it be teasing a TV spinoff of Lost?
Here are some guesses from the fine folks on the Internet:
That new Bad Robot 'Stranger' teaser is amazing, especially if it's something to do with Lost.— Sam Hart (@SamHart16) August 19, 2013
Is it a teaser for NBC's Believe? Or for a new show based on the Phantom Stranger? What do we think? Zomg... #badrobot #stranger— Suze (@CallTheHotline) August 19, 2013
"Soon He Will Know" >Soon Will Know >Soon Will >S W It's Star Wars. IT'S A STAR WARS TRAILER!! #Stranger http://t.co/TYHdn4YfIf— Joseph James (@TweetsFromJoey) August 19, 2013
Was that Deadpool in the #Stranger teaser? It looked like Deadpool.— Jennifer Mathis (@thejenmath) August 19, 2013
It's probably not this, but if that #stranger trailer turned out to be The Crow I'd go crazy, in a good way— Brandon Weese (@brandonweezy) August 19, 2013
So the Abrams mystery trailer thing is almost certainly for that upcoming book "S"— Jim Vejvoda (@StaxIGN) August 19, 2013
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