Normally when I hear rumors of a sequel to a somewhat-good movie I automatically cringe, but I’m not doing that today. According to Bloody Disgusting, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves knows about the rumors of a sequel for the monster movie, and won’t say flat out that it isn’t an option.
“Only time will tell. While we were on set making the film we talked about the possibilities and directions of how a sequel can go,” he told the reporter. Now, before you get all up in arms about a sequel to a movie in which, presumably, most of the characters die (this is not a spoiler since I haven’t seen the movie, and it’s just conjecture), keep in mind the concept. Cloverfield is ostensibly told from one point of view, a group of friends on a very specific mission while New York City is under attack. As Reeves points out, who knows how many other people had their cameras out that night and recorded the thing? Or, for that matter, what’s stopping Reeves and Abrams from making a more traditional movie about that night, showing the President making decisions and the National Guard mobilizing to stop the attack.
Maybe this is just my Lost addiction talking, but I see promise in retelling the Cloverfield story over and over from different angles, the way Abrams’ TV show often does. The movie reportedly leaves many questions unanswered, from the origin of the monster to what happens to the rest of the country after New York is decimated. And that’s not even counting all the information that was part of the marketing, like the Japanese TV report that showed the monster destroying an oil rig out in the middle of the ocean. Someone has clearly thought out a whole history behind Cloverfield, and the actual movie only scratches the surface.
Cloverfield has torn up the box office this weekend, with an estimated $41 million so far. We all know that big box office often means sequels, so executives at Paramount would probably be crying sequel even if Reeves and Abrams never considered the idea. I’m hopeful, though, that a Cloverfield sequel could mean something new and different, hearkening back to the old serials of the early days of movies, when sequels all fit together as part of a bigger whole rather than being a retread of the same old ideas. The guys behind this movie came up with one good idea, and now it’s time to see if they can keep that idea running.
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This was definitly one of my favorite movies of all time. Abrhams is a genius the way hes always leaving answers left opened and his creativity in presenting his ideas to the public. I have read and heard some thigns of a sequal in which it shows a different point of view from the same night. I heard a possibiity of a diary video a soldier in Iraq is sending back home to his girl friend. The video is never finished as soldiers are yanked out of Iraq on a code red mission to NYC to take out cloverfield. He keeps his video diary on the entire time to document the incident. It would be cool if he is able to conceal the camera at certain times (black out the video and just have the sound) of military leaders talking about top secret information of what the monster is and where it came from.
All I know is doing a sequal of the same day from a different point of view would be a much stronger sequal than simply having a mother monster come back to venge her babies death
One other cool feature will be the soldier running down the street of manhatten and you get a quick glimpse of hud marlana and the other two running behind cars to hide (little cameo shot)
IF U NOTICED HOW IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE IT SAYD PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT SUMTHIN LYKE THAT ND HOW THEY RETRIEVED IT 4RM CENTRAL PARK.THERE IS GOING 2 BE A SEQUEL I'M 99.9% SURE. 2 PEOPLE MADE IT THAT I KNO OF ROB ND LILY I THINK THAT WUZ HER NAME WHO BOARDED THE PLANE. I SAY ROB MADE IT BECUZ @ THE END HE SAYD SOMETHIN THAT U COULDN'T QUITE MAKE OUT.
REEVES LEFT US WONDERIN 4 A REASON, HE LEFT QUESTIONS UNANSWERED 4 A REASON. HE DIDN'T SHOW
J.J and reeves should defo make a sequel to the smash hit cloverfield, i loved the first one, the intensity and the grippingness of the film was a different kind of experience of film (if ya no wat i mean). For the second Cloverfield movie they should keep the same characters who suvived in the first film, and continue with their story on how the army retrieved there hand held camera which belonged to "Hud" who came up face to face with the monster and which claimed his death.
What i dont want to hear is about the monster in cloverfield is, end up being a mutation of an animal like in Godzilla, ( a mutated lizard!!!!!!!), it would be a coool idea for this monster if was related to LOST and the creations of the Dharma Initiative, like the NanoBot Smoke monster, for example.... an experiment went madly and confusingly wrong and the cloverfield monster gets of the LOST island and unknowingly time travelled back to present day america.
This would be thrillingly excellent if this would be a sequel to cloverield, they already put the DHARMA logo on the first scenes of the first cloverfield movie and would be a great storyline if Cloverfield was related to the stories of LOST.
in the dvd they said it was a baby, cmon, think of what other movie had a similar story.....the MIST??? i think hell has openup on earth or a 3rd dimension has opened and these monsters are running loose, imagine this happening to new york next or la, chicago, or n america all at once...could the world stand together to fight em all off, well thats enough arambles for me lol, you thoughts?
I think what would make the movie interesting would be if they did indeed have it from someone else's POV who also makes it through until the end. Maybe he could possibly see Rob and Beth under all the rubble from the collapsed bridge and uncover them. Who knows, they could run into Lily also, since her actor and Jason's actor were approached about a sequel.
cloverfeild was mad good i liked how they put the movie in a video camera 2 make it like real life like its actualy happening if they dont put that 1 in the second 1 thats goin 2 be wack but` i cant wait 4 cloverfeild 2 to come out keep up the good work
No the rumours of www.Aladygma.com are not true in the sense that it is a cloverfield sequal viral marketing site. It is infact a site someone on a blog has built to make a sort of online blog story about aliens e.t.c. Kinda cool but again too many people reading too much into it.
umm cloverfield two is very obvious. not only did the monster look like a big fish frog lizard thing but JJ Abrams said that the object falling from the sky was a sattelite falling from the sky that woke up a beast sleeping on the ocean floor for thousands of years. also at the end you can hear Rob whispering and he mumbles but you can distinctly make out "help us" but the mumbling reversed says "it's still alive". Also did you notice beside the news report spongebob was playing; where does spongebob live.underwater! also Abrams said it was just an irritable juvenile "Clover" monster thing
this was an extremely well story line for a movie, and the view of the handy cam describes it even better. i almost felt that something like this could really happen because among many reasons it was, well acted, and portayed. i think that Reeves should consider a sequel to CloverField ASAP, because i am 100% sure that it will make double the profit, and it would be stupid for the "movie crew" (makers) to now want the extra cash. i also think that the film crew owe it to the fans of CF to make a sequel, because the end of the movie doesn't serve justice for the plot.
I loved the handy cam, and showing it from one persons perspective leaves it open to telling other peoples stories and sequels. I want to see another one that answers a lot of questions because they didn't answer anything. I loved that they didn't have to... because it was just created as a documentation video so they broke all the rules. Some friends of mine hated it because it just wasn't "traditional" and didn't make everything obvious and some loved it for the same reasons. Maybe my friends who loved it are also LOST fans because they love a good mystery.
I just saw the movie tonight with my son and we both loved it. At first we thought the whole camera idea kind of stunk but it rappidly grew on us. I have to say it was made really really well. It's about time someone makes a good creepy movie. Did anyone else notice in the last film shot while the camera looking at the ocean, the thing falling from the sky into the ocean! It was too the left of the ship...then the camera went back to them on the ride. Nice! We hope that the brother Jason survived and met up with his girlfriend that left on the chopper. Better be a sequel!!! Or we should just all get together and make it ourselves....in Dallas
It would be extremely stupid on their part not to make a sequel.It would basically be like telling a joke,and not delivering the punchline.There's so many unanswered questions,which is a good thing,that's whats kept lost going all this time.There's still so much there we don't know.I think Abrams' did an excellent job with the movie,it was the coolest thing cinematically I've seen in a long time,but I'd still like to know what the hell happened.He could even do a prequel for all I care.With the awesome marketing campaign they did,I'm pretty sure there's a whole lot more to come.
Ok, so let me just put this out there. . . through all of the rewatching i did of certain areas . . . i stumbled across a few mysteries. one is that the miniature monsters seemed to be a bit clumsy though swift. . . hinting around at two possible out comes. one that its out of its homeostatic enviroment (i.e. an aquatic animal) or two that it was unstable because of the fact that it was not used to our gravity level. . . having said that the outcome would be obvious. but i am going to say aquatic because whenever "clover" attacks hud its seems as though "clover" is breathing in an amphibiatic manner. you see the skin expand on the sides of the head as though it has no diaphram. . . i say amphibian because there was no sign of stress out of the water and the only water based extremities were the fin like wings under clovers arms. also hinting around at the fact that it couldn't have been primarily aquatic. also the military is really quick to react. my guess is that its a genetic experiment. the military already knows the reactions of bites, and the tanks were already rithing through the city!
Wow Neo... too bad those "thinking" films don't teach you how to write like a smart person. I guess I'd rather hear someone intelligibly tell me how much they love a stupid movie than an "intelligent(thinking)" person telling me how much a movie sucked while butchering the English language...
The sequel is going to be from a different angle. There is a part in the movie where the two guys holding the camera meet, thats at bridge, before and after looking at the statue of liberty. You will see another guy holding a camera. thats the sequel, and i cant wait for it to come out.
i would bet there is a sequel, 1-18-08.com points to a better understanding of the movie, but who knows its a fair clue. I hope theres a sequence, and the history back will be unveiled in a batle in ocean following oil tube to the coast.
About the 1st camera view for the whole movie it was very exciting to watch a movie made this view, real and potential more pessoal.
ps. i am sure you guys have more clues than me, i watched the movie for the first time like 15 days after released in the usa, just now lauched in brazilian cinema.
Well, I have seen a lot of crap having sequels so how much can harm the worst crap I have ever seen to have a sequel. I do not think it can be worst. Maybe it will be pointed to thinking people since they already have the mindless.
Nevertheless, I just want my 72 minutes back. If somebody is reading this and have some thoughts on his/her mind and want to see the rumors just keep the money, rent a dvd and get dissapointed for just a few bucks. This kind of movie is the reason why I am pro torrent sharing. If I would have downloaded this crap before I would have spitted on the possibility of going to the cinema for this piece of sh..t.
Check War of the Worlds or The Host for a good monsters movie or Last Winter for a cool horror/fantasy/monster/supernatural thinking movie.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A SEQUEL!!! THE MOVIE WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! THERE WERE SO MANY QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED AND AFTERWARDS I WAS LEFT WITH A SICK FEELING BECUASE SUPPOSEDLY EVERYONE DIED....IM DEFINITLY GOING TO SEE THE SEQUEL IF THERE IS ONE :)
people need to understand that the movie had to be that length due to the fact that most camcorder tapes only can film for 60 minutes and extended record for 90 min
people need to understand that the movie had to be that length due to the fact that most camcorder tapes only can film for 60 minutes and extended record for 90 min
hey Ben Wheatley you mean the halflife creature, guardian, ( king healer worm, ( in episode2 you cant kill him in the caves and later outside you can kill them, his the one you mean ??? )
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