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Paramount surprised audiences by releasing a new trailer attached to Michael Bay‘s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The trailer is for a movie that had yet to be officially titled, a new thriller from JJ Abrams‘ production company Bad Robot. The trailer is for a film titled 10 Cloverfield Lane. Did JJ Abrams and Bad Robot somehow secretly produce a sequel to Matt Reeves’ found footage sci-fi film Cloverfield?
After surprising moviegoers who saw 13 Hours with the new trailer on opening night, Paramount Pictures has released an official version of the trailer online. Watch the trailer above. I love the way they edited the music in this trailer — the film looks like it could be an intense contained thriller.
Is 10 Cloverfield Lane A Cloverfield Sequel?
Is the movie a sequel to the film Cloverfield? Everything I had previously heard about the project made me believe it was a truly original thriller in the vein of Misery, but with a possible sci-fi mystery box twist.
My gut tells me it isn’t a direct Cloverfield sequel, BUT it is very curious that producer JJ Abrams would release another unrelated film with “Cloverfield” in the title. And the surprise trailer debut in front of Bay’s 13 Hours mirrors the mysterious and now infamous attachment of a trailer on Bay’s 2007 film Transformers. The trailer featured just “Produced by J.J. Abrams” and the release date “1.18.08”.
Update: Producer JJ Abrams has issued a statement to Collider, saying the following:
“The idea came up a long time ago during production. We wanted to make it a blood relative of Cloverfield. The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible.”
What does being “a blood relative of Cloverfield” mean? We don’t know.
Meanwhile, a member who participated in a test screening for Valencia confirms that 10 Cloverfield Lane is the same movie and says that the cut he saw was not a direct sequel to Cloverfield. So I’m assuming 10 Cloverfield Lane is more of a “cousin” than a “sequel.” I saw this tweet from Drew McWeeny and tend to agree with his assessment:
After further evaluation, I have concluded that the trailer in front of 13 Hours is for the movie that was going under the working title Valencia. That’s right, the movie directed by our longtime friend Dan Trachtenberg. The film, which shot in New Orleans in late 2014, has been editing deep inside the mystery box of Bad Robot Productions, which had an extra shell of security due to a little film called Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
What we’ve heard previously, the original script made the rounds under the title “The Cellar” was written by by Josh Campbell and Matt Steucken. Damien Chazelle supposedly did an extensive rewrite, and as far as we know, the story follows a young woman who wakes up in a cellar after a severe car accident and fears she has been abducted.
“Her captor, a doomsday prepper, tells her he saved her life and that there has been a terrible chemical attack that has left the outside uninhabitable. She does not know what to believe and as tensions rise, she decides she must escape, regardless of the terrors that await outside.”
The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr. 10 Cloverfield Lane is set to hit theaters on March 11th 2016.
I dig Goodman a huge amount -- although a small part of me will always see him as Dan Conner -- and the premise is reasonably clever.
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Cloverfield was one of the first films to have a massive viral market campaign behind it wasn't it? Or at least it was the first one where I think I took any notice.
A secret trailer in another film would be right along those lines.
Before we all completely freak out, though, let’s make a couple things clear. First: this probably isn’t a direct sequel to Abrams’ 2008 Godzilla-at-ground-level success, with the producer and Force Awakens director releasing a statement earlier tonight that referred to the new movie as a “blood relative” of Cloverfield (whatever that ambiguous familiar relationship actually means). Also, this almost certainly isn’t a new project, arriving out of the blue; rather, it looks like Abrams’ Bad Robot has changed the name of director Dan Trachtenberg’s Valencia, which Goodman signed on for back in 2014, and which Winstead talked about filming last year. It’s not entirely clear why the name was changed, although people are suggesting Cloverfield might become a sort of anthology franchise for Bad Robot’s periodic turns toward mystery and horror.
Not that any of that makes the trailer itself less chilling. Depicting Winstead as a young woman who wakes up after a car crash in the bunker of a stranger (Goodman), who tells her something terrible has happened to the world outside, it’s pleasantly tense and claustrophobic, culminating in Winstead’s character staring out of the bunker at some sort of unseen horror. Happily, we won’t have to wait super long to find out what she saw, either; 10 Cloverfield Lane is expected to come out in just two months, on March 11, 2016.
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LordofHats wrote: Cloverfield was one of the first films to have a massive viral market campaign behind it wasn't it? Or at least it was the first one where I think I took any notice.
A secret trailer in another film would be right along those lines.
DutchWinsAll wrote: I thought Cloverfield was a great concept, but a terrible movie.
This being shot like an actual movie and not some jittery 9 year old with a camera, looks like it could be awesome.
I agree totally - I enjoyed Cloverfield but really, really disliked the camera work, and especially they "hey, something awesome is happening LETS PAN AWAY NOW" thing that possibly inspired Godzilla (2014) to do so much. I'd say I enjoyed it despite itself, really - but I'm highly biased towards giant monster movies since they were a staple of my youth.
I'll obviously go see this too.
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