JJ Abrams producing the actual Cloverfield sequel

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Of all the cinematic universes that have emerged since Marvel and Disney, it finally proved that a huge company-wide movie crossover could net billions and billions of dollars if it really did. done right, few were built so transparently after the fact like Bad Robot and Paramount’s supposed Cloverfield film franchise. Say what you want about the moldy remnants of Universal’s Dark universe, but at least most (largely hypothetical) gFilms of stupid monsters were created Like franchise members. Whereas JJ Abrams and his team had a strange tendency to turn films into Cloverfield films after the fact; both 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox were originally conceived as stand-alone projects that then found themselves receiving Cloverfieldsince Abrams put his hands the scripts.

All of this is important to note our surprise today, how Variety reports that a Cloverfield sequel that actually started life as a Cloverfield sequel is now reportedly in the works. In fact, the new film – written by Joe Barton – is supposed to serve as an explicit sequel to the 2008 Abrams monster movie, that is, the one that really started our collective cases of Cloverfield fever, asking us to imagine what it would be like if TJ Miller were the most supernaturally dedicated cameraman.

That said, the concept of footage found from the original film will not be repeated in this second (fourth?) Film, for being, well, 2021. Hhopefully will not abandon the original film “What a Godzilla film looks from street level? ”Presumption, however, because that – along with smart marketing – was practically the best thing that the original the film had it in its favor.

Abrams will produce in the film. Barton recently made headlines when he became HBO Max’s showrunner Batman spin off TV sLike.

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