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The Wrap: JJ Abrams' 'God Particle' to be next in 'Cloverfield' anthology
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"shared universe"
Yeah, ok.
I have no problem with the anthology approach now that it's out in the open and I liked both films but this idea of a shared universe is the most bullshit of all.
They aren't connected, they might have a couple easter eggs that fans will obsess over and given their embracing of ARG web stuff, I'm sure they'll keep feeding fan theories for years and mysteries that lead nowhere. That's fine if you like stuff like Lost but I really don't care about how these films are supposedly connected, I'll just take it as an anthology series and that's it.
Yeah, ok.
I have no problem with the anthology approach now that it's out in the open and I liked both films but this idea of a shared universe is the most bullshit of all.
They aren't connected, they might have a couple easter eggs that fans will obsess over and given their embracing of ARG web stuff, I'm sure they'll keep feeding fan theories for years and mysteries that lead nowhere. That's fine if you like stuff like Lost but I really don't care about how these films are supposedly connected, I'll just take it as an anthology series and that's it.
Mushroomer25
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Presumably. 10 Cloverfield Lane was talked about as "Valencia" before the first trailer.
Honestly, it seems wierd they'd do this a second time. 10 Cloverfield Lane was crazy because nobody expected a Cloverfield sequel. Doing it again feels... redundant?
I'm betting the universe it just some marketing nonsense . Honestly as long the movies are as god as !0 Cloverfied Lane who gives a shit. As long as it doesn't shit the bed because though i haven't seen cloverfield the last third seems to be a thing they had to to appeal to cloverfield fans.
Killer Queen
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It's not a sequel and neither was 10 Cloverfield lane
Awesome. Finally watched lane (literally just now). Was great. Though the pacing of the very end felt misplaced, it's not too far from the original script. The original ending would have fit the rhythm perfectly while still technically having a tie in but would only have had a few seconds of aliens before smashing to black which would have made cloverfield fans angry about "not enough aliens".
Feel like the ending was balanced enough.
I'd also love to see more Michelle as a new Ripley, but that's probably not for best.
Anthology would be killer. Slusho as the SCP foundation.
Feel like the ending was balanced enough.
I'd also love to see more Michelle as a new Ripley, but that's probably not for best.
Anthology would be killer. Slusho as the SCP foundation.
BUNTING1243
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I'd love for some more direct cloverfield connections. I remember an Abrams interview where he said they had some really nuts ideas to bring it all together, I hope this is more than.
I love dumb shared universe stuff and really really enjoyed Cloverfield and the universe around it.
I love dumb shared universe stuff and really really enjoyed Cloverfield and the universe around it.
ronaldthump
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10 CL was entertaining but I really want a CF sequel.
still love this new anthonlogy. Well attended Sci-fi at the boxoffice = great for more.
still love this new anthonlogy. Well attended Sci-fi at the boxoffice = great for more.
Think of this as the third episode in a cinematic anthology series called Cloverfield.
BrahReally
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I loved 10 Cloverfield Lane thoroughly, so if they can keep the movies in the anthology up to par with that one I'm in.
Talking of Portals, I thought JJ was working on a live action movie of that game Portal
Wonder if God Particle is Actually Portal The Movie & JJ is just trying to throw people of the scent, meanwhile The Next Cloverfield film is being made elsewhere, completley different to God Particle.
HP_Wuvcraft
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That's what I'm thinking.
Revolutionary
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Yeah this has been the theory since at least January. Glad it's finally confirmed!
The original script for God Particle is out there by the way. I expect massive changes if they're going to tie it into the Cloverfield anthology.
The original script for God Particle is out there by the way. I expect massive changes if they're going to tie it into the Cloverfield anthology.
People keep saying this but it doesn't make it true.
Well, if this means that we get better version of Half Life movie then it's fine.
Triggerhappytel
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I wonder if they'll ever do another. I expect one of the biggest reasons a sequel never happened was because they didn't know how to follow it up, but I'd also really like another monster movie. Ignoring the characters, I really loved it and I thought it was an intense and interesting entry into the genre.
Gavin Darklighter
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Except 10 Cloverfield Lane bombed so there goes that theory
Mushroomer25
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I understand the throughline, I just don't they why Bad Robot was bothering with the smokescreen during preproduction.
Lifejumper
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108 mil on a 15 mil budget is a bomb?
Where the first instalment is self titled. Like a Twilight Zone episode called The Twilight Zone. Not buying this 'anthology' excuse at all, it's as retro fitted as adding Cloverfield to an unrelated script. Either they are connected stories in a cinematic universe or they are a thematically or spiritually connected collection of stories in an anthology. You are saying this is both.
WordAssassin
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Are you insane? It was a commercial and critical success. 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and made over 100 Million WW on a micro budget.
Rautavaara's Case?
The worst part was when they made it so that it did *not* fit in the Cloverfield universe, the script seemed like it was perfectly made to work with the previous movie but it seemed like they changed the ending to be about generic aliens instead.
Tertullian
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Will the characters be reasonably sympathetic like the girl in Lane, or the most disgustingly self-absorbed shitheads you've ever desperately wanted to see eaten by a giant monster, like in Cloverfield?
It can be both.
Anthology shows don't set all their episodes on the same Earth, so why are you getting angry Cloverfield has multiple universes?
No one is getting angry, grow up. And nothing you said indicates "it can be both" or contradicts me. If it's multiple universes it's not a shared universe.
Vigilant Walrus
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Cloverfield depicts them as stereotypical new yorker millennials? They were obnoxious. I think the hand held aspect showed them in a light that made them more annoying than they had to be. think about it- you're watching it through a "first person shaky lens" so storytelling is difficult, and so they are reduced to talking heads; unrealistically saying their feelings and observations because it's difficult to express character development when you cannot cut to a close up of an actors face.
Birdman was absolutely incredible in this department because we saw how revolutionary blocking would have the perfect floating camera walking into the actors field of view in a natural way making it completely unnecessary for the actors to explain. Cloverfield formats as a monster movie where the terror comes from the shaking camera and sounds and distorted visuals doesn't lend itself well to a show-don't tell when it comes to the actors.
I think this is why the actors end up in cloverfield being all like "omg what is going on you guise?". Friends tell me that the spanish Zombie movie REC is really well done and better realized than cloverfield with a similar "viewing it through a camera" style of storytelling, but i've not seen that film.
I like Cloverfield. I remember the marketing coming out from it. No trailers, no build up. you just went to see it because it was JJ abrams. It was cloverfield that made me not want to watch trailers for films. It made me remember the fun of going into a film completely blind. Half the time I can predict how a movie ends by just watching the trailer, so Cloverfield as an experience has really made me happy. But I won't disagree that Cloverfield doesn't have problems.
10 Cloverfield, even with the outragous action ending was a nice ride. It was the sort of ending you'd see in a Danny Boyle movie like Sunshine or 28 Days Later. The movie has this theme and style and tone, and then the ending just goes off the rails. There is something to like and hate about such a violent shift in tone.
I do think the ending became a bit too much war of the worlds / prometheus / the hobbit, where the hero just escapes the CGI fear in the last second. Sometimes it just is not that exciting.
Discotheque
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Wow. So much better before it got picked up by this team lol.
I was talking about God Particle, I know 10 Cloverfield was another movie.
yeah sorry. Misread your post.
Shared multiverse then. And I'm glad you're not angry or telling people to grow up angrily. That'd be hostile.
Yes, the spec script is already out there, so expect a similar treatment.
That's your interpretation, some meta debate on my tone that's utterly irrelevant. A bit like your goal post moving interpretation of what this production is doing. Shared mulituniverses dilutes your point even further. Deploy Occams Razor and look at what we have in material goods at the moment, not what you hope we have.
Markitron
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Is it an Anthology if the stories are actually loosely connected? Wouldn't that just make it a series
Either way, I loved how 10 Cloverfield Lane kept me guessing, as if the title itself was playing with my expectations. Looking forward to more.
Either way, I loved how 10 Cloverfield Lane kept me guessing, as if the title itself was playing with my expectations. Looking forward to more.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
I'd still LOVE to see an alternate story set in the OG Cloverfield timeline. But I do like the sci-fi anthology pattern.
Markitron
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Are you referring to JJ Abrams, the man who hasn't written or directed any of the films in this series?
RipperGrim
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Can't wait for the trailer.
Ordinaryundone
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Its gonna be like DOOM 2016, Slusho opens a facility on Mars and secretly opens portals to hell in order to frack their hell energy to create unlimited quantities of Slusho CODE RED(tm). Thus solving world hunger. But things go awry and now only alternate-alternate universe John Goodman can squeeze his ass into some power armor and kill all the carbonated horrors that await him.
Produced and developed? He dabbled in plenty of stuff thats trash.
He's no better then tyler perry.
The Jackdog
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member cloverfield?
Uhhh...you might want to sit down...
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