Despite the title, producer J.J. Abrams doesn’t want audiences to think that 10 Cloverfield Lane is a direct or literal sequel to the 2008 hit, Cloverfield.
“It’s not called Cloverfield 2 for a reason, and it’s very much a different film than what Matt Reeves directed,” Abrams said when talking about what to expect from the surprise project originally announced as “Valencia.”
Abrams said that the movie was “an opportunity to do something that is more rare than it should be in Hollywood films, which is to tell an original story, and to do it in a way that is connected as a spiritual successor to Cloverfield.”
In the same interview, he repeats that the new movie is explicitly not a direct sequel, instead calling it “a spiritual successor to that movie in a way and there’s a real kinship between the films.”
That doesn’t mean that fans of the original should give up hope of a direct continuation, however; Abrams admitted that he was talking to original Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard recently about that very idea, saying, “because we’re in a moment post-major studio Godzilla, post-Pacific Rim, we don’t want to do a sequel just because we can do another kaiju movie. We don’t want to just jump in and do it — we want to make sure we’re doing something that is worthy of people’s time.
The science fiction psychological thriller was directed by Dan Trachtenbergin his directorial debut, produced by J. J. Abrams and Lindsey Weber, and written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken, and Damien Chazelle.
The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, and John Gallagher Jr.
Narrative Premise:
The second installment in the Cloverfield franchise follows a young woman who, after a car crash, wakes up in an underground bunker with two men who insist that an event has left the surface of Earth uninhabitable.
The film was developed from a script titled The Cellar, but under production by Bad Robot, it was turned into a spiritual successor to the 2008 film Cloverfield.
It is presented in a third-person narrative, in contrast to its predecessor’s found-footage style.
10 Cloverfield Lane premiered in New York City on March 8, 2016, and was released in the US on March 11, 2016, in both conventional and IMAX formats.
The film grossed over $110 million worldwide and was praised for its performances, screenplay, and atmosphere.
A successor, The Cloverfield Paradox, was released on February 4, 2018.
