Well, well, well Cloverfield fans, do we have two interesting bits of news for you tonight…
At the recent Cinema Con event Paramount Studio chairman/CEO Jim Gianopulos dropped news on several of their upcoming projects including A Quiet Place 2 (here) and Star Trek (here) and one of the other big ones was, as we said above, the Cloverfield franchise.
With everyone waiting for the fourth movie in the franchise, Overlord – after Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox – we were all in for a surprise… despite all our previous beliefs (here), it seems that Overlord is not, after all, an adventure in the Cloverfield universe. And how do we know this? Well, JJ Abrams himself appeared on a big screen at the event to tell us.
Describing Overlord as ‘batshit’, Abrams debuted footage from the movie (including a decapitated head that likes to speak) before telling the audience “This is not a Cloverfield movie”.
But, we ear you cry, what is the other piece of Cloverfield news?! You promised two!
Well, we wouldn’t lie to you constant reader…
The second bit of news is that Abrams also revealed: “We are actually developing a true, creative Cloverfield sequel.”
Holy crap! How long have we waited for a sequel to Cloverfield (em, ten years, duh!)?! Will we finally get some concrete answers about the monster and what exactly it is? Where it came from? How all the other movies tie in? Probably not… but we’re still there opening night!
Overlord opens on October 26th.
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