Cloverfield 2

[Extra-Ordinary]

Or 10 Cloverfield Lane as it were.


I personally don't have much to say other than YYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Update: Producer JJ Abrams has issued a statement to Collider, saying the following:

"The idea came up a long time ago during production. We wanted to make it a blood relative of Cloverfield. The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible."

http://www.slashfilm.com/10-cloverfield-lane-trailer-cloverfield-2/

Well, that explains how it stayed under wraps for so lone (two months until release?!) I mean, the first Cloverfield flew under a false flag for a long time, seems like a case of second verse, same as the first here.

Like I said, I don't have much to say other than ALL THE HYPE.
They're saying that they want to consider this movie a "blood relative" to the first, which I, along with most people, assume that means it's another story in the same universe rather than a direct sequel.
You guys can talk about the cast, the move to ditch found footage, whether or not you think a sequel is warranted, I got my own thoughts on all of that (you could say I'm a fan), I'm just going to bask in the pleasure of this thing existing.

Although it seemed kind of sketchy at the same time. The trailer being released through a camera in a movie theate- found footage, I get it now. But the super close release date.
I don't know, but JJ said his piece (or is it peace?), I'm gonna assume it's real.
[small]Please be real...[/small]
At the very least, let me dream.

 

[Marter]

Formerly known as Valencia, which I'd like to point out I mentioned in my films to watch this winter [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/moviesandtv/15077-Winter-Film-Preview-25-Movies-to-See-Winter-2015-2016] list ... before the Cloverfield relation was revealed. ;p

It's interesting to me that, in the type of world we live in, something like this could go relatively undetected for so long. I mean, its identity didn't get leaked, and that's pretty crazy. Anyway, I'm obviously looking forward to it - although I don't know if I'm looking forward to it more or less now that we know it's related to Cloverfield. I kind of liked the Room-like premise before. But we shall see. It certainly makes March more interesting.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Mmm according to wiki, the orignal title was The Cellar and Valencia.

My initial prediction is either this take place during the attack on New York or maybe afterward (they used too many nukes).

 

[DefunctTheory]

Cloverfield was the first movie I ever walked out on. So my take on this is essentially 'You all can have this, just keep it the fuck away from me.'

I guess I'm happy for you if your a fan. Me, I'm just sitting here, dumbfounded that Cloverfield got a sequel. Shit, John Goodmans in it, and even that can't get me excited about it.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Mmm according to wiki, the orignal title was The Cellar and Valencia.

My initial prediction is either this take place during the attack on New York or maybe afterward (they used too many nukes).

Watching the trailer and reading about it being a cousin I don't think it's going to have anything to do with Cloverfield. A "blood relative" seems to suggest it'll have twists or something and be similar in tone or style.

I think it's going to be like Black Mirror. A bunch of stories under one title, all unrelated to each other.

Huh? All the Black Mirror stories were related. 2 and 3 were more closely related to each other than 1, but all still related.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Huh? All the Black Mirror stories were related. 2 and 3 were more closely related to each other than 1, but all still related.

They all take place in completely different universes.

Uhh... Black Mirror 3 is a direct continuation of 2. How could it take place in a different universe?

 

[Albino Boo]

Cloverfield 2, John Goodman builds a 200ft high robot to fight attacking sea monsters.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Uhh... Black Mirror 3 is a direct continuation of 2. How could it take place in a different universe?

I don't know what you mean by your numbers there, you'll have to be more specific, but while I've not seen Fifteen Million Merits or White Christmas I'm almost 100% certain that The Entire History of You is in a completely different universe from Fifteen Million Merits.

Like the main part of Black Mirror is that they're all completely separate stories in different universes.

Ok we're clearly talking about 2 different games. I'm talking about the one developed by Cranberry Production, maybe there is another one.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Am I the only one weirded out by John Goodman's presence?

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

Am I the only one weirded out by John Goodman's presence?

Shut up, Donny.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

It give me serious vibes of Stephen King's The Mist movie adaptation, and looks like he's going for an extremely long build up again where the most of the tension will come from the strained human interactions of the survivors rather than out-and-out monster threat.

They've gone away from the 'found footage' style of the first movie (I will refrain from calling it a gimmick, but then have failed to refrain by putting that word in these brackets. Oh well.) I consider this a huge plus for the movie, yet Abrams still seems to be keeping the toned down feel by having it be apparently 3 random survivors in a fallout shelter, hiding from... something (possibly the parasites off Cloverfield, perhaps the monster itself) I think it's likely that, just like the original movie, half the threats will go unexplained, as we know JJ loves his 'mystery box'.

I remember in an interview eons ago JJ talked about how the original Cloverfield monster was just a baby and was actually just more scared and confused and lashing out calling for mommy rather than actively trying to kill anything. If he decides to continue that thought process on and has matured Cloverfield monsters in this movie that could be very interesting indeed.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Cloverfield 2, John Goodman builds a 200ft high robot to fight attacking sea monsters.

Ok, regardless of it being a Cloverfield movie, I would watch that.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Am I the only one weirded out by John Goodman's presence?

Shut up, Donny.

I am the walrus?

 

[the December King]

It's funny, I loved Cloverfield.

I also loved The Blair Witch Project. But after a re-watch and some time to think on it, I was also surprised to find I was not completely disgusted with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2- at first I was, but for some reason I came back to it, and found it was, well, a bad horror movie, but certainly not the worst thing I'd ever seen. In fact, there were aspects I thought were in good keeping with the original concept, even if the film style changed from the original.

So I'm willing to give this one a try, for sure.

...

I know, I have horrible taste.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

It's funny, I loved Cloverfield.

I also loved The Blair Witch Project. But after a re-watch and some time to think on it, I was also surprised to find I was not completely disgusted with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2- at first I was, but for some reason I came back to it, and found it was, well, a bad horror movie, but certainly not the worst thing I'd ever seen. In fact, there were aspects I thought were in good keeping with the original concept, even if the film style changed from the original.

So I'm willing to give this one a try, for sure.

...

I know, I have horrible taste.

Simply to make myself feel better, as a guy who also loves Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project and Predator 2, [small]shut up...[/small] [footnote]I've been having way to much fun since I discovered how to make small text. I know everyone else knows how, shut up.[/footnote]
It's not a crime to like things.
Unless those things are crimes.
Then it's a crime.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Ok we're clearly talking about 2 different games. I'm talking about the one developed by Cranberry Production, maybe there is another one.

No I'm talking about the really popular TV series, Black Mirror.

Never heard of it.

 

[the December King]

I know, I have horrible taste.

Simply to make myself feel better, as a guy who also loves Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project and Predator 2, [small]shut up...[/small]
It's not a crime to like things.
Unless those things are crimes.
Then it's a crime.

Amen- we have to stay strong.

...

I thought Predator 2 was awesome.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Never heard of it.

Weird. I would put good money that's it's one of the top ten most watched shows on Netflix, I mean they bought the show from Channel 4 like 3 months ago so it must've been making huge ratings on it. It's had Domhnall Gleeson and John Hamm in it, and Robert Downey Jr. bought an episode to turn into a movie.

I hadn't heard of it either until you mentioned it, went to scour google on it, and The best I could find in the first 5 links was ranked #28, otherwise the other ones didn't really rank it, just mentioned it.

Went and asked a handful of friends and family members if they'd heard anything about it...none of them have either.

Not saying it's a bad show, I might put it in my absurdly large queue, but it must be a gem in the rough.

OT: really don't know what to think after that trailer, I can only hope all the parts they are showing aren't the whole movie..because if they get to the monster/whatever and there is only 5 minutes let, I'm gonna be pissed.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm torn...

Despite it's many faults, I really liked Cloverfield. I also enjoy John Goodman's acting. On top of this, Damien Chazelle[footnote]Writer and director of Whiplash.[/footnote] co-wrote the screenplay for this movie.

However, Matt Stuecken and Josh Campbell wrote the story, and their claims to fame include G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and 4 Minute Mile, respectively. And, moreover, Dan Trachtenberg is directing. He made that fantastic short film Portal: No Escape, but this will be his first, true feature-length film.

So...I don't know. I want to be excited for this but there are a lot of red flags...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I hadn't heard of it either until you mentioned it, went to scour google on it, and The best I could find in the first 5 links was ranked #28, otherwise the other ones didn't really rank it, just mentioned it.

Went and asked a handful of friends and family members if they'd heard anything about it...none of them have either.

Not saying it's a bad show, I might put it in my absurdly large queue, but it must be a gem in the rough.

Weird when I Google "Black Mirror" I get this:

Spoiler

I didn't literally google black mirror, I had googled "top netflix shows" "most anticipated shows on netflix" and one other one, I didn't want to get old channel 4 links hence why I didn't google just black mirror.

idk, maybe because it's a british show is why I hadn't heard of it up until now, but I'll admit it does seem to have good ratings on imdb and rotton tomatoes.