10 Cloverfield Lane

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So it looks like Abrams has done it again. A trailer dropped in front of "13 Hours" this evening appears to be a film set in the Cloverfield universe. A complete surprise. It will premiere in March.

http://collider.com/cloverfield-2-se...verfield-lane/

’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Is the Title of J.J. Abrams’ Secret Bad Robot Movie
by Adam Chitwood

In 2014, news broke that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg—who helmed the short film Portal: No Escape—would be directing a post-apocalyptic thriller called Valencia (also referred to as The Cellar) for Bad Robot and Paramount Insurge, produced by J.J. Abrams. While it’s true that the film is a post-apocalyptic thriller and was produced by Abrams, it appears that the Star Wars: The Force Awakens director has pulled another fast one on us—the movie’s actual title is 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Yes indeed, it appears as though that long-talked-about sequel to the secretive Abrams-produced 2008 film Cloverfield is not only happening, it’s already in the can. Abrams is taking the exact same marketing approach to this film as he did with Cloverfield, as a Collider reader who caught an east coast screening of Paramount’s 13 Hours hipped us to the news that the teaser trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane is attached to Michael Bay’s Benghazi film. Surprise!

The film stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher, Jr. and, per our reader has a “very creepy trailer that starts out fun but then gets really dark.” We previously spoke with Winstead when she was promoting her indie Faults, and she told us the film revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cellar where she’s being kept by a stranger, played by Goodman. The actress previously elaborated a bit on the plot by saying the following:

“He tells me that basically the world is over outside because there’s been a nuclear fall-out. It does have similarity to Faults, in some ways, because you don’t know who’s telling the truth or who to believe. There’s a lot of, who’s manipulating who, and all of that. Tonally, it’s very different, but it has some of those same themes.”

[TimBone]

Saw it today. It was very good until the end. If I had known it was that kind of movie, I probably wouldn't have gone to the theater.

I did watch it IN Lake Charles, though. One guy even let out a howl in the theater when they first mentioned Lake Charles, kinda like those guys that scream in the audience when a comic mentions their hometown.

[TimBone]

I also thought the entire main cast did very well, not just Goodman.

[RobBlake]

would have been nice if John shot the girl in that acid scene.. that would have been even more crazy

[BigBeauford]

Originally Posted by Mennonite

Well then what was the point of the first 80 minutes of the movie, where they were playing up the suspenseful "Is he crazy? Is he right about an invasion?" angle?

It's like going to see a movie called Godzilla part 2, getting an hour and a half of "My Dinner with Andre" with a giant lizard foot smashing the restaurant Monty Python style. I mean, it's called Godzilla part 2 - what did you expect?

I didn't hate the movie, I just think the last act was a mistake. It's like they had an ok script, an ok cast, but knew they wouldn't make much money without riding on the coattails of a blockbuster. She could have been attacked by the guys from Twilight or Ultron, or the iceberg from Titanic and it would have been about as effective.


Still, it was nice to see John Goodman get such a substantial role. I wish he would take better care of himself.



p.s. This movie reminds me of the Malcom McDowell B movie The Caller (1987) in some ways. Anybody ever seen that one?

John's actually doing pretty good these days.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

You do realize this started out as a pure thriller that had nothing to do with Cloverfield right? They tacked the new ending on so it tied into Cloverfield -- the original scripted ending was very different.

Is this really true? If so, how come? I'd love to know the original ending. I really enjoyed most of the movie and thought it was making for a great thriller. That ending, though....otherwise just felt like it ruined a great movie.