10 Cloverfield Lane

[Deserana]

For those who enjoyed the viral campaign of the first movie folks on Reddit see me to believe they've found the first legit piece of the marketing.

 

[Alien Anal]

I am very interested in this film and as much as most signs are pointing to it being a cloverfield sequel I just cant see how it would be interesting if thats all they are being locked away from.It just sounds a bit pointless.

I mean that kinda is the point of a bunker isnt it? I feel like there is suppose to be some kind of surprise for the audience but if she pokes her head outside and its just destruction I cant see how that would be surprising.

Not dissing the film just speculating

 

[dude stannis]

Perhaps what lies outside the bunker is the answer to what happened after they dropped the nuke?

 

[Victarion]

I'm hoping for a Resident Evil 4 Scenario: parasite-people. I would like to see that whale monster used as well. Maybe its just me, but I find it freakier than Clover.

 

[Bruce Malone]

On another site someone says they read the script for this and it has no connections whatsoever to Cloverfield.

Did the script actually leak online?

 

[chaseter]

I read this was a non related movie that was canned but then reshot to make it a Cloverfield movie???

 

[The Apocalypse]

I read this was a non related movie that was canned but then reshot to make it a Cloverfield movie???

I believe they went back to do some reshoots to connect it to Cloverfield.

 

[Schlosser85]

It was made by a subdivision of the studio that handled productions with budgets of under $5 million.

The subdivision went kaput, and the movie sat on the shelf for a while.

Then the main studio took control of it and saw an opportunity to make some money off this movie that was just sitting collecting dust. They threw some extra money at it, did some script rewrites/add-ons, added some special effects and extra scenes, and tied it in with Cloverfield so it would attract an audience.

So yea, from all accounts, it was a totally unrelated movie that they haphazardly revised to tie-in with Cloverfield so they can toss it in the theater and make some money instead of just having it sit on a shelf collecting dust for years.

 

[Heretic]

JJ Abrams has been involved with this from the start. Any early leaks about this project should not be trusted because misdirection and deception is what JJ does.

 

[Deserana]

The script is legit and features pretty much everything seen in the trailer. However, like others said has no connections as it is a leak pre-add on.

If they pretty much follow the script to a tee it will be a frustratingly disappointing movie as 97% us in the bunker and would actually be a decent indie flick.

 

[Heretic]

A sequel to Cloverfield would not have very many direct ties to the first film. The characters in that film, including the title monster, are all dead. Depending on what was needed to kill the title monster, the nearby world may not be habitable for life, forcing survivors into underground bunkers.

 

[The Chris]

Clover's dead? I remember that voice after the credits saying "its still alive"

 

[Heretic]

I didn't exactly stay through the credits...so maybe you're right.

Regardless, the monster could still be destroying the world while some people are hiding underground. That seems like a reasonable thing to do when a giant monster is destroying everything.

 

[Teelie]

As I recall (possibly incorrectly) Clover was also the baby of the monsters. It wasn't a full-sized adult.

Of course even if it were an adult there is nothing to say it was the only one in the ocean or that there aren't other equally catastrophic monsters lurking.

This movie by most accounts is being stitched onto the Clover movie as a way to make money. There was no intention of tying this together from the start. It shouldn't be considered a sequel.

 

[Matt]

As I recall (possibly incorrectly) Clover was also the baby of the monsters. It wasn't a full-sized adult.

Of course even if it were an adult there is nothing to say it was the only one in the ocean or that there aren't other equally catastrophic monsters lurking.

This movie by most accounts is being stitched onto the Clover movie as a way to make money. There was no intention of tying this together from the start. It shouldn't be considered a sequel.

I think that was just something Abrams or Reeves said hypothetically, that the monster could be a baby, who had just woken up and is scared and confused but not inherently violent. I don't think they meant it as a way to cement into the canon that Mama Clover is coming and would be unstoppable. I think it was just thinking outloud.

 

[Heretic]

"By most accounts"??? How many REAL accounts are there? And again...this is a JJ freaking Abrams production...so the fact that people seem to be trusting the alleged details as if JJ would never mislead people is kind of odd. The entire history of JJ involves doing the opposite of what is being claimed here.

 

[Matt]

"By most accounts"??? How many REAL accounts are there? And again...this is a JJ freaking Abrams production...so the fact that people seem to be trusting the alleged details as if JJ would never mislead people is kind of odd. The entire history of JJ involves doing the opposite of what is being claimed here.

Yeah, except that this isn't what happened here. This project isn't some case of Abrams secretly producing something with smoke and mirrors. This production can be very easily traced, right down to the studio shutting down and shelving it. I don't think even JJ Abrams is good enough to create a child company of a major studio and make it go bankrupt simply for the sake of hiding a sequel to a quasi-successful cult movie.

 

[Heretic]

Yeah, except that this isn't what happened here. This project isn't some case of Abrams secretly producing something with smoke and mirrors. This production can be very easily traced, right down to the studio shutting down and shelving it. I don't think even JJ Abrams is good enough to create a child company of a major studio and make it go bankrupt simply for the sake of hiding a sequel to a quasi-successful cult movie.

You think that the failed division existed solely to make this movie? No...it was making other movies. It failed. That happens. The division shutting down had little to do with whether or not one of the films on the slate was a low-budget sequel to a moderately successful film.

 

[Matt]

You think that the failed division existed solely to make this movie? No...it was making other movies. It failed. That happens. The division shutting down had little to do with whether or not one of the films on the slate was a low-budget sequel to a moderately successful film.

I was being hyperbolic.

Look at this logically: what is more likely?

That this movie was produced as Valencia and/or the Cellar, a small budget, indy thriller that Goodman and Winstead both discussed being a part of openly and the production of which can be traced very easily. When the studio went bankrupt, rather than shelving it, Abrams was brought in to doctor it up a bit, create a post-production connection to a franchise with an established fanbase, and then release it in an attempt to get some money out of something that would otherwise sit on the shelf or be relegated to a February release and bomb.

OR

That Abrams secretly produced a sequel to Cloverfield (with none of Cloverfield's creative team attached), a film with a fairly large cult following. Despite this cult following, the studio relegated it not to one of their more successful, well resourced child companies but rather a failing, barely afloat studio. As said child-studio struggled financially, it somehow found funding to put together fake scripts and leak them to the press and hold at least two or three test screenings of a movie that edited out any connection to Cloverfield and edited in scenes that were never meant to be used all for the sake of misleading viewers.

Which is really more likely to you? Fans can delude themselves all they'd like, but the logical inference is that The Cellar/Valencia was never intended to be a Cloverfield sequel until well after it was produced.

 

[Broseph44]

What does it matter Matt? This seems to be really irking you for some reason.

 

[Matt]

What does it matter Matt? This seems to be really irking you for some reason.

Please don't assume to know my intent.

I am simply making conversation as I find this process behind this film's production fascinating. My apologies for not foaming at the mouth screaming "zomg!!!! JJJ HAS DONE IT AGAIN!"

 

[Heretic]

JJ Abrams was involved in Valencia prior to Insurge shutting down. He was not brought in to alter the film to keep it from being shelved. Your premise is wrong, Matt.

The scripts that leaked were apparently basically the movie we are getting...BUT without any mentions of "and there was this monster called Cloverfield" references. Any other details could have existed in the script specifically to keep people from guessing...and that is TOTALLY something that JJ Abrams would do.

 

[Matt]

JJ Abrams was involved in Valencia prior to Insurge shutting down. He was not brought in to alter the film to keep it from being shelved. Your premise is wrong, Matt.

The scripts that leaked were apparently basically the movie we are getting...BUT without any mentions of "and there was this monster called Cloverfield" references. Any other details could have existed in the script specifically to keep people from guessing...and that is TOTALLY something that JJ Abrams would do.[/QUOTE]

No, his production company Bad Robot was a co-financier of Valencia. There is nothing to indicate any Abrams involvement beyond that of which he had with other Bad Robot productions such as Morning Glory or Infinitely Polar Bear (which was none). Face it, you're deluding yourself, man.

 

[Heretic]

Bad Robot was involved, with JJ apparently listed as a producer.

It is simply incorrect to claim that JJ Abrams was not involved prior to Insurge shutting down. You are apparently committed to this incorrect conclusion for reasons all your own.

 

[OutOfBoose]

I love Cloverfield with passion. My favorite monster movie. Really curious about this one.