Cloverfield 2 JJ Abrams

We have a new confirmation that Producer J.J. Abrams is definitely aiming at developing a movie sequel to Cloverfield. Indeed he confirmed his intention to do so during a panel at WonderCon 2009. Just watch below:

"We're actually working on an idea right now… The key obviously at doing any kind of sequel, certainly this film included, is that it better not be a business decision. If you're going to do something, it should be because you're really inspired to do it. It doesn't really have to mean anything, doesn't mean it will work, but it means we did it because we cared, not because we thought we could get the bucks.

We have an idea that we thought was pretty cool that we're playing with, which means there will be something that's connected to Cloverfield, but I hope it happens sooner than later because the idea is pretty sweet."

Producer J.J. Abrams
at the Star Trek panel at WonderCon 2009

It doesn’t exactly sound like part of a plan for a straight sequel but I still say bring it on, Abrams! We are all craving for Cloverfield 2!
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Cloverfield 2 Movie

There was a hell of a viral craze around the movie Cloverfield last year. And at the end, the shaky-cam monster movie did perform incredibly well.

A sequel to Cloverfield has been in talk even before the first opus was out. But Producer J.J. Abrams and Director Matt Reeves haven't agreed yet on the direction it should take...

No doubt that Paramount would sign up for Cloverfield 2. But first we need Abrams and Reeves to sit together at a table and decide the plot of the sequel!

Well, Matt Reeves made some hints at what we may expect from Cloverfield 2:

"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 camera phones and Handycams, uploading it to YouTube... That was kind of exciting thinking about that."

Matt Reeves

"There's a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a guy filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees him filming and he turns over and he sees the ship that's been capsized and sees the headless Statue of Liberty, and then he turns back and this guy's briefly filming him. In my mind that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there are so many different points of view, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just saw one piece of another."

Matt Reeves

But J.J. Abrams isn't in a hurry to work on Cloverfield 2. He does not want to rush into the development of the sequel right away because of the first film's success, he says instead, he wants to create a sequel that is true to the previous film...

Here's what J.J. Abrams answered when someone asked him if there were any updates on a Cloverfield sequel during last year Comic Con:

There’s something we’re playing with now that may or may not happen. There’s an idea we have that plays with… it’s not a literal sequel.

J.J. Abrams

So he states that Cloverfield 2 wouldn't be a literal sequel. This would somewhat confirm Matt Reeves' hints that Cloverfield 2 is either gonna be a retelling of the central story or it will explore some backstory that would shed a new light on the events. Unfortunately we can't really know as long as Abrams and Reeves aren't decided themselves...

Besides there is the possibility of a more traditional sequel that would dwell on the aftermaths of the first movie. Two details would legitimate such a take on Cloverfield 2:

- at the end scene on Coney Island shows something falls into the ocean in the background (in the far right from the view out of the ferris wheel, a bit left of a boat sitting in the water seen falling just as the camera beeps).

- at the very end of the credits, someone can be heard whispering "Help us". And if you reverse it, you could hear: "It’s still alive."

Let's hope that J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves won't wait too long to tackle Cloverfield 2, the sequel to Cloverfield.
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