The Cloverfield Paradox

[DarthSkywalker]

The films are there own things. No plot elements from one film carry over into the other. You'd know this if you'd watch the films.

You ask too much Marv.

 

[Octoberist]

I'm not judging the quality of the individual films, I'm talking about the Cloverfield universe overall (which has been covered in news articles.)



Good thing I'm not criticizing the movies.

Wait. I had re-read your comments.

So you have an ‘opinion’ on a series of films you’ve never seen before, wanting them to fail? To crash and burn.

An opinion has to carry some sort of weight and credibility. If not, it’s not really an opinion and becomes invalid. Adding a level of weird maliciousness does not help either.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This conversation should be archived and then shown to humans in the far off future.

"This was the Internet in 2018."

 

[Broseph44]

Lord

 

[Arachnerd]

This conversation should be archived and then shown to humans in the far off future.

"This was the Internet in the 21st century."

That's much more fitting.

 

[Lily Adler]

We already TiVo'd it.

 

[Filmfan93]

I wish no ill upon the individual movies, I just want them to succeed on their own without being part of Abrams' nonsense universe. I want that concept to fall through.

They are not part of any universes, each is its own thing. The fact that they carry "Cloverfield" in their names doesn't mean anything until something carries from one movie to the other. And so far nothing does. Cloverfield is put in the title to gather attention from the audience.

You would have known these if you had seen the films. Don't expect anyone to take you seriously when you throw statements like that without any background or weight to them.

 

[Spider-Fan]

It's not like Cloverfield is the only series to do this. Hellraiser for example took existing horror film scripts, and to get made they just added Pinhead for a scene and called it Hellraiser.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It's not like Cloverfield is the only series to do this. Hellraiser for example took existing horror film scripts, and to get made they just added Pinhead for a scene and called it Hellraiser.

Every single Die Hard.

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm warming up to Cloverfield Station being a potential sequel. Personally wanted Cloverfield Collider or Cloverfield Hole (innuendos aside).

 

[Evil Twin]

I think of "Cloverfield" as basically a brand rather than a franchise. It basically promises science fiction thrillers and not much else.

That said, I don't know how valuable the brand is as far as getting people to show up. 10 Cloverfield Lane made around $110 million worldwide with good word of mouth and critical reviews. That might be the ceiling for the franchise moving forward. Where's the floor? It might be so low that a bad $40 million budgeted film is a significant money loser. And if $110 million is the ceiling then ballooning the budget to fix it, with no guarantee of success, might not make any financial sense.

It might also be a message to Abrams from Paramount that they're not appreciative of him skipping out to work on Star Wars when he's under contract to develop films for Paramount.

 

[Marvolo]

I think of "Cloverfield" as basically a brand rather than a franchise. It basically promises science fiction thrillers and not much else.

That said, I don't know how valuable the brand is as far as getting people to show up. 10 Cloverfield Lane made around $110 million worldwide with good word of mouth and critical reviews. That might be the ceiling for the franchise moving forward. Where's the floor? It might be so low that a bad $40 million budgeted film is a significant money loser. And if $110 million is the ceiling then ballooning the budget to fix it, with no guarantee of success, might not make any financial sense.

It might also be a message to Abrams from Paramount that they're not appreciative of him skipping out to work on Star Wars when he's under contract to develop films for Paramount.

Abrams has slighted Paramount before. They wanted him to do Star Trek 3 and were hoping to get him to do another original film, but he squashed those plans when he went to Lucasfilm and Disney to do The Force Awakens. And now again out of the blue he is going back to do Episode 9. Paramount probably feels like the third wheel thats always getting ditched.

 

[Black Narcissus]

The films are there own things. No plot elements from one film carry over into the other. You'd know this if you'd watch the films.

 

[Marvolo]

 

[KevTravels]

Another Hollywood lead from Daniel Bruhl. What an Incredible actor

 

[Blitzkrieg]

http://deadline.com/2018/01/cloverfield-sequel-dwayne-johnson-jurassic-world-black-panther-super-bowl-movie-trailers-2018-1202270304/

While we can expect a number of summer movie trailers to air during Super Bowl LII next Sunday, one of the big surprises we’re hearing is that Netflix is potentially dropping a trailer for the Cloverfield sequel God Particle. As reported by Deadline four days ago, the streaming service has been circling an acquisition of the Paramount/Bad Robot title. From what we hear, that news will likely become official on Feb. 4 when Netflix drops the God Particle trailer. There’s always the slight chance that Netflix could swap out and not go with a God Particle trailer at the last minute, but this is what we’re hearing what’s in store for next Sunday.

 

[Broseph44]

That would be awesome please let it be true.

 

[Arachnerd]

http://deadline.com/2018/01/cloverfield-sequel-dwayne-johnson-jurassic-world-black-panther-super-bowl-movie-trailers-2018-1202270304/

 

[Pennywise]

http://deadline.com/2018/01/cloverfield-sequel-dwayne-johnson-jurassic-world-black-panther-super-bowl-movie-trailers-2018-1202270304/

Yes please!! t:t:

 

[redhawk23]

It's not like Cloverfield is the only series to do this. Hellraiser for example took existing horror film scripts, and to get made they just added Pinhead for a scene and called it Hellraiser.

Even those were at least connected by Pinhead.

The Cloverfield title has been set up to operate more like "Twilight Zone" or "Black Mirror." Actually, even Black Mirror has more references and connections between episodes.

Really its most comparable to what Carpenter wanted Halloween to become, a theatrical anthology series. That didn't work out when audiences rejected Halloween 3.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

JJ can do no wrong.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I am very curious to see what the trailer for this looks like, especially seeing where that $40 million dollar budget went. Hopefully, the rumors of it dropping during The Superbowl ends up being true.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Apparently Cloverfield 4 has been shot too. It's called Overlord and takes place in WW2.

http://www.slashfilm.com/cloverfield-4/?

 

[Kane52630]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=538727

 

[#root]

Two sequels in one year? Cool beans. The concept and the setting sound cool.