CLOVERFIELD Direct Sequel In The Works At Paramount With THE BATMAN TV Spinoff Writer Joe Barton Attached

@SatsuiNoJXA - I mean it was talked about the one we saw was an infant so it doesn’t kinda make sense

@Ha1frican - Man completely agree, Cloverfield was such a great experience in the cinema. Love that film. Cloverfield Lane was OK but the whole alien stuff at the end kind of ruined it for me.. I just want the Cloverfield monster to be just that a monster not some big plan from aliens to take over earth.. and the Netflix film was absolutely awful.. I kinda feel like both those films were originally nothing to do with Cloverfield but JJ Abrams forced them to put Cloverfield stuff in them to make it this weird cinematic universe.. just doesn’t work at all.. so I’m glad we’re getting a straight sequel instead of a weird ass nothing to do with anything spin-off

@JohnCastillo - I think you're missing whats really going on in the Cloverfield movies. As bad as Cloverfield Paradox is, its canon. And each of the 3 Cloverfield movies take place in a different dimension/reality.

Consider the original film Universe A. 10CL was Universe B. Paradox was Universe C, but they also traveled to Universe D in it.

Paradox, though it takes place in the future, is the beginning of the whole franchise. The scientists in that movie accidentally tore a hole in space-time, basing causing any type of sci-fi/horror threat to appear in any dimension, at any time.

So the effects of that were the monster in the original Cloverfield movie appearing in hybernation at the bottom of the sea 1000's of years in the past, then waking up in current day.

In the 10CL universe it caused the aliens to appear on Earth, or close enough to it to take notice, and attack.

In Paradox, in Universe D, it caused a similar version of Earth as the original Cloverfield film, except there, it caused multiple, full grown versions of the monster to appear.

None of the movies are connected except for the fact that Paradox caused the threats to appear in them.

It was basically JJ's way of creating an anthology series of movies where he could make any sci-fi/horror film he wanted, put the Cloverfield name on it, and the viewers would all know that the connecting thread is the events of Paradox and the tearing of space-time.

@CorndogBurglar - I understood from Paradox that it was a whole reality/dimension thing. You made a great explanation to clear things up but at the end of the day I just don’t like the idea. I know it’s canon and I gotta look at it that way moving forward but I just don’t like it.. I wanted Cloverfield to be a straight monster film, with some mystery ofcourse like “where did the monster come from?” “Are there more?” “What was that thing that dropped out of the sky when they were on the ferris wheel at the end” but not alien ships and parallel universes.. I just didn’t dig it for Cloverfield, maybe I would have loved it if those films had been amazing but nah Paradox was so crap. I wonder if this sequel would even address any of the thing we saw in Cloverfield Lane or Cloverfield Paradox... if it doesn’t at all, maybe we could be looking at a retcon

@JohnCastillo - I doubt it will. Abrams wants to do an anthology series. Paradox set it up so he could do that and just say each movie is a standalone film in its own universe. And if a particular stand one film is liked enough by fans, he can do a direct sequel for that universe's story. I'm pretty sure thats what this sequel is. A direct sequel to the original Cloverfield film, with no mention of Paradox or 10CL. Because the people in that univerze wouldn't know anything about the tear in space-time.

@DaHyro - what do you mean

@99OPTIMISTPRIME - Alternate dimension