The Super Bowl spot offered the most revealing look yet at Super 8 , director J.J. Abrams ' forthcoming homage to the classic films of Super 8 producer Steven Spielberg . Now Abrams has pulled back the curtain a bit more on his ultra-secret summer movie.

In a chat with The Los Angeles Times , which also got to see about 30 minutes of footage from the film, Abrams said, "This is a movie about overcoming loss and finding your way again and finding your own voice. ... A boy whose lost his mother and the man whose lost his wife. There's this father who, because of the era, never really had to be the parent. He's a good man, he works hard, he's a deputy in the town, but he's never stepped up as father."The article also revealed the film's synopsis: "[Super 8] is set in Ohio in 1979 and introduces a troupe of six youngsters who are using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie."One fateful night, their project takes them to a lonely stretch of rural railroad tracks and, as the camera rolls, calamity strikes — a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire. Then something emerges from the wreckage, something decidedly inhuman.Abrams, whose penchant for secrecy is matched perhaps only by Christopher Nolan, admitted that such a cloak over the project might not ultimately be in its best interest given how crowded the summer 2011 movie marketplace will be. "We have such a challenge on this movie," the helmer told the Times. "Yes we've got Steven's name on it and my name on it — for what that's worth — but we've got no famous super-hero, we've got no pre-existing franchise or sequel, it's not starring anyone you've heard of before. There's no book, there's no toy, there's no comic book. There's nothing. I don't have anything; I don't even have a board game, that's how bad it is. But I think we have a very good movie."Super 8 opens June 10.