When is a viral site not a viral site? When it has the studio logo plastered all over it and when it’s actually no real mystery what movie the website is promoting.
Despite everyone reporting that it’s a “viral” site, ReportThreats.org takes you right to a subpage of Sony’s website for “Battle: Los Angeles” and then lets you click over to a page called W.A.T.C.H., which is some kind of real/fake expose site about alien visitation to major cities around the world over the years. They are well put together sites but it probably would’ve been cooler if they truly were viral buildups rather than obviously constructed phonies. Whatever.
The film, set to hit on March 11, 2011, is based on a true story about a mysterious air battle in the Los Angeles skies in 1942 in which the enemy being fired upon was never made public. Mysterious indeed. Footage is screening today at Comic-Con, some kind of teaser is probably imminent and new photos are surfacing so this won’t be the last of the film you hear from us in the next 24 hours. Such as it with Comic-Con; news comes in tidbit torrents. The sort-of synopsis from the webpage after the jump:
On February 25th 1942, just after 2am, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed something in the skies above Los Angeles. US army planes scrambled to intercept, while anti-aircraft guns fired over 1,500 rounds for more than two hours. The object was never hit, then it disappeared. The president was briefed and ordered an investigation. Finally the government dismissed the incident and the story was forgotten. The truth behind these real events has never been explained.