Now that Cloverfield – AKA The Blair Godzilla Project – has broken box office records, the time has inevitably come to talk sequels even though nobody really wants to see one.
Even though it's only been out for less than a week, it's been reported that a Cloverfield sequel is already in the works, with director Matt Reeves already brimming with ideas on how to gobble up every last penny explore every last creative avenue that a Cloverfield sequel would open.
However, if a Cloverfield sequel is made, let's not forget the lesson that The Matrix taught us – that no sequel is complete without a lengthy underground slow-motion rave scene.
We'll give JJ Abrams one thing – he might be responsible for Lost, a TV show that can't answer a single question unless it's given 12 hours and the keys to the flashback cupboard first – but he knows how to hype a good movie.
Ever since trailers for the then-untitled Cloverfield hit the internet, the planet has been abuzz with questions like "Did a monster do this?" and "Really? The Statue Of Liberty's head is that small?" – and they've only grown louder since Cloverfield was released, culminating in Cloverfield's record-breaking weekend box office yesterday.
And as we all know, where there's cash, there's a sequel. So although Cloverfield apparently succeeds because of its ambiguity and – we assume – all the characters die at the end – director Matt Reeves is still talking up the possibility of Cloverfield 2: On The Rocks. Monsters And Critics quotes him as saying:
"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. The fun of this movie was that it might not have been the only movie being made that night, there might be another movie! In today's day and age of people filming their lives on their iphones and handy cams, uploading it to YouTube… That was kind of exciting thinking about that."
Of course – because Cloverfield is made from fragments of supposedly 'found' videotape, there's no reason why there can't be infinite versions of the same story told. We now know how the vapid party hipsters coped with the Cloverfield attack, but what about other people who'd have cameras on them, like the tourists, or the hapless TV documentary crew, or the amateur porn enthusiasts? What about their story?
This could happen because everyone has a camera of some sort on them most of the time, as this is the social networking generation and Cloverfield is the social networking Godzilla. And that's true, because we were just Facebook-poked by the Cloverfield monster because it's just updated its status from 'Raaaauuuuuurrrgh!" to "Groooaaaauuuuurrrrgh!"
But anyway, Matt Reeves can kid himself that the Cloverfield sequels will exactly follow the timeline of the original exactly from different perspectives, but he knows in his heart that they won't. Cloverfield 2 might, but then Cloverfield 3 will want to answer questions about the attack and be filmed like a slick, traditional blockbuster from the perspective of the military.
Then Cloverfield 4 will be released, where the monster will have a wisecracking cartoon meercat sidekick, and then everyone will get sick of Cloverfield for five years until Rob Zombie offers to do a reimagining of the original Cloverfield with an industrial heavy metal soundtrack and a long scene that shows the monster being bullied at school by an older kid who looks identical to the Statue Of Liberty to show where it got so angry.
Still, rather that than Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, eh?
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Joe says
Your an idiot
wack says
The sad thing is that you’re most likely right… Cloverfield v.2.0 mashup… here it comes…
Joe? says
that would be “You’re an idiot” joe.
james says
uhh… you might want to consider the possibility that the thousands of people who saw the movie may have not found it to be a total disappointment… In fact, I found it to be a really thrilling movie, even though it had a few moments that couldve been improved, and would gladly see it again. Also, many of my friends and myself hadnt seen all of the previews months ahead of time that built up so much hype. You might think its bad, but in my opinion its good to see a new style like this, especially following the long abandoned godzilla-type genre
spellbinder says
There is too much info online for there NOT to be a sequel. Too many hints on SLUSHO and U-TUBE, all the footage from the collapsed oil rig, and hints to the Alpha-Omega website hint to more of a plot. J.J.Abrams would be STUPID to not see the MILLIONS to be made from a sequel of this magnatude!! This deep sea necter is not explained at all in the movie. So there has to be more…..
The Red Queen says
this movie was amazing, and acctually i thought the idea of a seqeul was awsome! i mean think about it. Most military groups have helmet cames or something. Or even a possibility of a news broadcasting. or maybe a collection of different aspects, or maybe even a post-cloverfield ‘documentary’.
gabor says
y’know, you’re kind of a prick. Basically, because you didn’t like the movie, you think everyone else didn’t like it. You might as well say the world revolves around you. Did I mention you were a prick?