Sneak Peek more new footage released by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company, adding to the mystery of the first clip revealing provocative images of a man untying his rope-bound wrists near a river bed, climaxing with a dramatic zoom-in on his face, revealing lips sewn shut like a 'voodoo zombie'...
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The accompanying voice-over narration intones:
"...He arrived knowing nothing of himself. Who is he? Soon he will know. Because what begins at the water shall end there. And what ends there shall once more begin. This is what happens when we become lost, when we vanish, when we are erased and reborn..."
Although many fans wish that the character in the video is 'Simon Garth', a zombie character from the Marvel stable of characters, introduced years before Robert Kirkman's "The Walking Dead" learned to crawl, it turns out that the video is a promotion for a new 472-page book titled 'S', available October 29, 2013:
"...one book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
"A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
"The book: 'Ship of Theseus', the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named 'V.M. Straka', in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
"The writer: 'Straka', the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him.
"The readers: 'Jennifer' and 'Eric', a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.
"'S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word...".
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