Cloverfield 2: Coming Soon, Unless It Isn’t
As movie law states, a successful shaky-camera film should always be followed by a non-shaky film that everybody hates.
It happened with The Blair With Project, and now it’s probably going to be happening with Cloverfield too, so long as the director can get his act together. Almost a year after it was greenlit, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves still hasn’t made is mind up about what to do with Cloverfield 2.
Don’t get him wrong, he has ideas about Cloverfield 2, he just doesn’t know where to set it. Or who’ll star in it. Or when it’ll take place. Or what’ll happen in it. Or if he’ll direct it or not. But, seriously, once Matt Reeves has those details down, Cloverfield 2 is going to be excellent. Or rubbish. Or somewhere between those two.
We don’t know about you, but we’re really excited about the prospect of Cloverfield 2 - especially if it’s about the same monster attack, but compiled from sources that weren’t seen in the orginal movie. That way we’ll get to see the effects of a giant squid rampaging through New York from the perspective of people who aren’t insufferably smug cocknozzles, and that would be quite nice.
But, although that’s what was discussed when Cloverfield 2 was first mooted, it might not be what’ll happen in the movie. And that’s because nobody seems to have the first clue about what Cloverfield 2 will even be about. Not even Cloverfield director Matt Reeves.
And this isn’t some hokey Christopher Nolan manouvre to stall the inevitable and hold out for more money for the sequel - Matt Reeves genuinely doesn’t seem to have a clue what he’s going to do with Cloverfield 2. MTV reports:
Reeves says that talks have been frequent if sporadic over the last nine months. “At times it’s gone dormant and then its come back up again,†Reeves says of the brainstorming over a sequel. “There are a couple ideas that have potential but we haven’t quite cracked it yet… When we were in Japan we thought, wouldn’t it be cool to do it here,†he said.
So Cloverfield 2 might be set in Japan, might be set at the same time as the original movie and might be directed by someone other than Matt Reeves, but might not be. You know what? We’re worried that Cloverfield 2 is never going to happen because everyone involved is too busy sitting around with their thumb up their arse. So, to hurry things along here, we’ve drawn up a list of potential Cloverfield 2 plots, which Matt Reeves can use completely free of charge:
1 - Cloverfield 2 is set in a military base at the time of the attacks, and consists of nothing but a cigar-chomping US general’s face getting redder and redder for two hours.
2 - Set Cloverfield 2 at the same time as the original, but on the set of a porn film at the top of a skyscraper. That way you have perspective across the city, a means to film the attack, and boobies.
3 - Hire Matthew Broderick to play a reporter in Cloverfield 2. That way you can just film a couple of minutes of footage and edit it Godzilla and hope nobody notices.
4 - Cloverfield 2 is set at the same time as the original attack, but thousands of miles away at a dinner party in Surrey where everyone is completely oblivious to it because they’re all having awkward, slightly drunk conversations with each other.
5 - Set Cloverfield 2 after the monster has been killed, so we can see the parents of Rob and Hud agree that they’re pleased their sons died because they were both douchey hipster wankers.
6 - Cloverfield 2 is actually a prequel where we learn that monster attacked New York because earlier that morning it had a fight with its girlfriend because she used all the hot water in the shower again.
7 - Anything. Cloverfield 2 can be about anything. Just, please, stop shaking the sodding camera around so much. We really don’t want to go home from the cinema wiping someone else’s vomit from the back of our heads again.
i donno Cloverfield was pretty tight
I think a plot line with potential would be to tell the story from the perspective of third parties, outside the city, getting reports about the attack from their friends via txt message, cell phone video, emails, twitter, etc. REALLY use the idea of a new, web based, community media to tell it. A challenge to keep a coherent story line to be sure, but a challenge worth tackling.
I rather like Cloverfield, the shaky cam was annoying at times (the rooftop scene) and the Hud character was really annoying, which is why I guess they ended it off the way they did (no spoilers here
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The great thing about that movie was the ingenious idea of narrative, I just found it really a smart way to unfold the story without using flashbacks, but rather use the medium which had been taped over to sporadically show bits of information the viewer would not be able to know without a flashback or this type of plot filling. Whoever came up with that idea should be brought back in.
Cloverfield was terrible. Possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Why the hell would the studio greenlight a sequel in the first place?
Why not cast Paris Hilton as the creature’s love interest, and have Simon Cowell slinging critiques from the corner of the screen ala mystery science theater 3000. The film can be titled “Cloverfield 2: the Body & the Nottie & the Snotty
i donno Cloverfield was pretty tight
Ok first of all Don, screw you.
Now that that’s out of the way, Cloverfield was an amazing movie. It really captured what it’d be like if something like that actually happened. There NEEDS to be a sequel, but honestly, it shouldn’t be filmed from someone else’s camera angle. Just because it’s not giving us anything new.
Maybee they can do the whole military POV but have like a group of news broadcasters follow the military around thus finding out that maybee the military had something to do with 1-18-08 or they could link it to the Dharma Initiative in LOST
Just a suggestion, it could be that the monster never dies of course, the maker can put two and two together, it would be logical that the creature didn’t die, because as we saw in the war torn city, the military had hit it with napalm, I think and it didn’t die, so what makes you think that its gonna die so easily? “I, don’t know”, well it could be that the monster disappeared for quit awhile, because I remember in the documentary, hearing that it was just a baby, so while its out of sight, it could be growing into its adult form, much larger and more monstrous, like the teeth and skin type, and color, and maybe like gills on its back sense it was like a sort of fish. So the way the monstrous creature is brought back up in mainstream media is that small attacks on boats and stuff like in near by water, and in other lands, it could stick by land and to get food, it goes in the deeper part of the ocean. Let’s just say the U.S military is still looking for this creature that destroyed and invaded New York Manhattan, and that it’s on the run..
I would introduce the camera in the movie to, maybe with the military having new equipment, reporting and capturing data missed. Or it could be that another group of people having a camera and are recording it also. this movie should take place somewhere far away like in china or Japan or something, where Hudson’s friend (Rob) was going, connecting it still with the formal characters, but never splitting up, I don’t know about lily, if she would go, but “Beff”(Elizabeth) and Rob are now together or something like that, to get away from America for awhile, there taken a break. so the movie can introduce the main characters from America, cause you have to have American actors in an American movie especially in a foreign country, or it could be that new character are experiencing the disaster as they captured it. I think it should take place in Japan or somewhere near there, just like it would give us a hint from Rob’s going away party, that the next one would be filmed in Japan, another city where there is large structures and water near by. There has to be reasons why the creature would go there, Right?
I think yes the film should be made in another foreign land, but what about the title? What’s the connection?
It could be that in dedication of Robs and Beth’s friends who lost there lives in the invasion that they continue using the camera, in add the camera show flash backs of the original invasion and the monster in the back ground when beth and rob were at the carnival, but most of all the camera should go back to the time of the going away party, for everyones clue about sequel to japan, if it ever was.
Cloverfield was a great movie! I’m hoping to see a sequel.
STOP CALLING IT SHAKEY CAMERA! IT’S CALLED HAND HEALD CAMERA HOMO!
Steve I don’t get anything by doing that.
cloverfield was one of the best monster flicks i have seen since the old swamp thing. the story line made sense all of this took place in a first persons perspective. where as the shaking of the camera lens is the second character shooting everything as a documentary. the flaw that i saw with the movie is when they crashed and the characters remaining in the park in ny just stood there instead of shaking it off and heading forward
Cloverfield 2 is going to have a great plot, and incase u dont know what it is ill tell u. it is in the milatarys point of view but after the nuke. the baby barley survives and its mother and other babyys around the world (especialy paris)are awaken. they rampage and distreroy some and finnaly are destroied by one common weekness. paris is a major city hit. the military form some type of operation and go deep underwater and find large colonies of diferent creatures.
I threw up in the bathroom
at the movies theateres
lol
I sat in the front row.
But i LOVE Cloverfield!