Buzzfeed has posted a really great in-depth article about screenwriter, Max Landis. A small portion of it delves into
Chronicle 2, a script that was written by Landis, but was ultimately thought of as too dark for 20th Century Fox. They wanted to go in a different direction. Which is a shame because most people were hoping that a lingering mystery from the first film (directed by Josh Trank) would be explained by the original screenwriter in the sequel. Which is, how did Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Matt (Alex Russell) and Steve (Michael B. Jordan) acquire their superpowers? We saw all three drawn to a hole in the woods that was emitting a humming noise. Then they proceeded into the hole and followed a tunnel that lead them into a cavern housing a large mysterious greenish crystal. When the crystal began to glow, and Steve's nose bleed, the scene cuts to black. That's it... until now. Landis has filled in some blanks.
One minor disappointment was his removal from the Chronicle sequel, a result of Fox balking at a very dark script that presented two embittered souls as antiheroes trying to catch the survivor of the first film. Landis had a whole trilogy mapped out in his mind, including the revelation of the mysterious source of the heroes’ powers, Massive Organic Geoelectric Objects, which he says are “a race of crystalline organisms that communicate and propel themselves through radio waves, and turn higher life forms into telekinetic drones.”
Three high school friends gain the superhuman abilities of telekinesis, flight, and invulnerability after making an incredible discovery in a mysterious crater. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as one of them, Andrew Detmer, embraces his darker side.