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Cloverfield Spawns a Sequel

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Odette Yustman and Michael Stahl-David in Cloverfield courtesy Paramount Pictures
What new and scarier ways can we taunt the Big Apple — and scare the bejesus out of Manhattanites? Paramount wants to know. They've given director Matt Reeves a green light for a sequel to Cloverfield, the little monster movie that scared up $46 million over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, setting a new box-office record. They'll also reward Reeves' appetite for destruction by letting him direct another movie he wrote, The Invisible Woman, a Hitchcockian thriller about a former beauty queen who turns to crime to protect her family (as former beauty queens are wont to do). — Mickey O'Connor

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Posted by TV Guide News
Jan 31, 2008 10:11 AM
Mickey O'Connor? Former co-editor of The Ledger? Surely not that Mickey O'Connor.
Posted by jengriffin
Jan 31, 2008 10:28 AM
Cloverfield sucked, I cannot believe they are making a sequel. I will not be seeing this movie.
Posted by auntie94
Jan 31, 2008 11:13 AM
Yeah! I loved Cloverfield. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it is a wild ride.
Posted by gdADV
Jan 31, 2008 11:13 AM
How does a Beauty Queen become invisible, and, why would she turn to crime? That's largely odd.

Hopefully the sequel to Cloverfield doesn't have the nausia-inducing shakey-cam.
Posted by Spiderkeg
Jan 31, 2008 11:34 AM
I think they should do a Cloverfield sequel from a national defense point of view, ie Bruckenheimer it.

Overall, I thought Cloverfield was actually very well done, about 687 times better than Blair Witch which is apparently the only thing the media knows how to compare it to. At 80 minutes long, it felt just about right. An intense ride. A little gimicky but that's ok in this instance.
Posted by bwschultz
Jan 31, 2008 11:44 AM
It's not gonna write itself... unless they're gonna give someone a camera and it's impromptu....has the strike ended??????
Just my two cents.
Posted by creolemommie
Jan 31, 2008 12:11 PM
I LOVED Cloverfield. I thought it was one of the more visceral experiences I have had at a movie and I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. One of the people I went with did find the camera work too much and had to leave for a while during the film but it didn't bother me at all. It was, as someone else said, a wild ride!
Posted by Shane
Jan 31, 2008 12:14 PM
I loved Cloverfield but given how badly the box office dropped from it's opening weekend I don't see a market for a sequel.
Posted by Buffy Freak
Jan 31, 2008 12:51 PM
I do not want a sequel to Cloverfield. One of the reasons I liked it so much was the way it ended. I didn't think they could make a sequel until I heard that there was more footage after the credits that gave the hint of a sequel. I won't see the sequel. It will ruin the original for me. The movie was about the characters not the monster.
Posted by mdjones
Jan 31, 2008 2:08 PM
Are they NUTS? I went and saw this crapper, I wish I could have gotten my money back! It's all with a hand-cam view, and I actually felt ill halfway through. I'm not one to get motion sickness, I didn't during my three years in the Coast Guard. I MIGHT see the sequel if it's on a no pay station like sci-fi.
Posted by wakeenyan
Jan 31, 2008 3:11 PM
They were already discussing the potential for a sequel before the first one was even released. I don't recall who said it, or where I read it, but it may very well have been Matt Reeves. They said that more than likely it would be shot in the same way but by a different group of people--offering a different story and a different experience.

As for people who did not like it at all or had issues of nausea or both--what were you expecting? It was quite well known what the premise for the movie was beforehand, and it was quite well known that the entire movie was shot in POV. While it's not the best movie I have ever seen it accomplished exactly what it intended too. At $25-35mil to make and advertise it was done far better than a slew of other sci-fi/horror/thriller flicks with much higher budgets.

For the sequel, I'd like to see it maybe done from the POV of a team of scientists and/or military. It's the perfect opportunity to full in the missing portions of the story from the first one--what is it, where did it come from, why is it here, what the heck can we do about it? I also hope that whichever person is on camera duty isn't nearly as annoying as the person in the first one. Can only stand to hear a guy scream and squeal like a girl for so long...
Posted by ikmartin
Jan 31, 2008 4:01 PM
There are ways to shoot a POV movie without it being completely nauseating. Blair Witch did not make me sick, but this sure did. I will not see the sequel unless it is done like a normal movie.
Posted by Potch
Jan 31, 2008 5:43 PM
The sequel should be a direct followup to the storyline in the first one, creating at a minimum an arc between the 2 if not a direct continuation. The first one could have had better closure. I also hope they use regular shots (not just hand cams) for the sequel even if they stick with hand cams in the actual RTM, why? SO when it hits the DVD market it will have the broadest audience possible. Currently Cloverfield will come out on to the DVD market with a built in hadnicap and that's the hand cam shots/angles. While it's a good theatre gimmik, it will be a tough sell in the Sell Thru market to more then just those who watched it at the theatre. Most DVD's are purchased because the viewer will watch the film more then once and more then once every 5-6 years. Cloverfield can be a tough sit down for successive vieiwngs. It's one thing when you don't knwo what's next (the first time you see the movie) and another when you are watching it for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Nth time.
Posted by EdCarden
Jan 31, 2008 6:25 PM
I thought Cloverfield was an absolutely great monster movie but I don't know about a sequel...anyone remember the sequel to Blair Witch Project? I hope they at least keep the shakey cam, I love seeing the destruction from the character's eyes.
Posted by JayDiggler
Jan 31, 2008 6:36 PM
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