Shock and Awe. 'Cloverfield' Was Not Based on 'Infinity on High'

Okay, so remember a week or so ago when Pete Wentz was bragging that Cloverfield was based on Infinity on High? Um. Yeah. About that.... according to writer Drew Goddard, not so much.

Pete Wentz said he met Drew Goddard at the premiere of the movie, and they began speaking because Goddard is a huge Fall Out Boy fan. Pete says Drew told him "the only thing he listened to when he was writing the movie was Infinity on High." The conversation went on, and according to Pete, anyway, he was told by the writer, "you could sync Infinity and Cloverfield up, like Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz" When Pete asked if he was serious, he replied, "Well, you probably couldn't, but if we watched it together I could do it for you."

Well, damn. I could probably watch an episode of any show on TV and sync it up with any album, if I really tried.

Anyhow, MTV caught up with Drew Goddard, because presumably, their writers have seen the movie and heard the album, and much like me left scratching their heads as to how the two were remotely related. I mean, aside from both not delivering what I expected. Yes, I went there. Anyway, straight from Drew Goddard's mouth, via MTV:

To clarify ... I was playing their album the whole time while writing 'Cloverfield.' I don't want to undercut [the idea that the movie was inspired by FOB's album], but it was just that the album came out at the same time as I was writing the script, and the way I work, I need music on in the background, and I was playing it, so it was inspiring in that sense, so I told them it was inspiring. There may have been confusion as far as the movie being inspired by it — and I did mention the whole Pink Floyd/ 'Wizard of Oz' thing, because I bet you would see some crazy sh-- there — but it certainly was not a track-by-track plan.

That's pretty much as polite as it gets when someone is pretty much saying, "no, dude, you got it all wrong."

He also noted that the album won't line up exactly [Really? They're not even the same length] but it would be "interesting to see if anything does."

I guess we have to watch it with him, and he'll let us know. That is, if he finds anything that lines up. Which he probably won't, because it's just not there.

Poor Pete. He's always saying things, and then has to retract them, or be corrected. Or people are saying things about him, and he has to correct those lies. It's like he can't get a break.