alien25 wrote:

I've said all along that the material for a prequel is already there in all of the viral marketing that was used to promote the first movie.  The oil rig, the tanker, the beached whales, the splash in the Conney Island footage could be used to explain the origins of the monster and show the events that led up to its arrival in Manhattan.

Whoa I need to rewatch and look for that stuff. I knew about the thing falling in the water but I didn't notice everything else.

I really enjoyed this film. It left so much to the imagination and built up so much suspense. Can't wait for the sequel!

Most of the stuff wasn't in the movie, it was used in the viral marketing campaign that led up to the movies' release.  There was a ton of stuff, so much so that it turned some folks off.  There are sites out there, I dont recall any by name, that followed it all, solving the puzzels,  and unlocking all of the clues.  I am sure you could find them if you did a search.  But some folks had alot more time on their hands than the rest of us.

I've said all along that the material for a prequel is already there in all of the viral marketing that was used to promote the first movie.  The oil rig, the tanker, the beached whales, the splash in the Conney Island footage could be used to explain the origins of the monster and show the events that led up to its arrival in Manhattan.

Whoa I need to rewatch and look for that stuff. I knew about the thing falling in the water but I didn't notice everything else.

I really enjoyed this film. It left so much to the imagination and built up so much suspense. Can't wait for the sequel!

On the sequel side, it would seem to be hard to keep it out of Godzilla land, unless... they focused on the spidery bug thingies invading.  If someone had a sense of humor they could pit a rubber-suited guy <insert good monster name here> against a CGI Cloverfield for the final battle!

Total Film interviewed director Matt Reeves on the status of the giant monster movie film. Reeves indicated they are working on the plot with the help of producer J.J. Abrams.

“Well, you are going to see it – we just don’t know when [laughs],” explained Reeves. “At the moment we are talking about the story quite a lot. Drew Goddard, who wrote the original, is going to pen the sequel and J.J. Abrams is very much involved. However, the three of us have been so busy that getting the right idea together has been taking a long time.”

One of filming techniques that made the original “Cloverfield” different from other monster movies was its real-time shaky camera. So there are some discussions on how to shoot the sequel with same technique.

“You see, that’s a difficult part: we want it to be shot like the first but how can you continue that idea successfully for a second time?” he said.

The original 2008’s “Cloverfield” managed to gross over $80 million domestically on a film budget of $25 million. The original film followed a group of friends who tried to escape a giant monster attack in New York City.

“Cloverfield” starred Lizzy Caplan (“127 Hours,” “Hot Tub Time Machine”), Jessica Lucas (“She’s the Man,” “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son”), T.J. Miller (“How to Train Your Dragon,” “She’s Out of My League”), Michael Stahl-David (“The Black Donnellys,” “No Deal”), Mike Vogel (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “She’t Out of My League”) and Odette Annable Yustman ("Unborn," "You Again").

In the past, Reeves previously directed television shows such as “Felicity,” but he gained some more success and reputation with big screen films by directing the original “Cloverfield” and last year’s “Let Me In.”

“We have a lot of affection for the original and the sequel can’t just be the same thing,” he concluded. “But that is tricky when you need to have a monster destroying stuff once again.

Paramount Pictures will be the distributor for the film and it is scheduled for theater release in 2014.