Cloverfield is an American horror horror film of 2008 directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, and written by Drew Goddard. Movie stars Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman, TJ Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan and Mike Vogel. The plot is followed by six young New York City residents who escape from giant monsters and various other small creatures that attack the city as they hold a farewell party.
Development begins when Abrams begins to draft a new monster, taking inspiration from Godzilla and King Kong. The scene involving the disconnected head of the Statue of Liberty was inspired by posters for Escape from New York . The creature was designed by Neville Page artist. In February 2007, the project was quietly illuminated by Paramount Pictures and produced by Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. The main photography took place in Los Angeles that same year. During production, the project is included in several work titles, including Slusho, Cheese, and Greyshot. As part of a viral marketing campaign, teaser footage was released before playback Transformer without the title attached. The film's official title is revealed in the second teaser trailer related to playback Beowulf . With limited details revealed about the movie prior to release, it garnered online speculation, including forums and websites dedicated to uncovering hidden information about the film. Several tie-ins, including the prequel series, were released as part of a film marketing campaign. The website for Slusho!, Fictitious drinks, and Tagurato fictitious companies was launched as part of film mythology. Slusho! also shown on several other Abrams works, such as Fringe and Alias ​​.
Cloverfield was released on January 18, 2008 and received positive reviews from film critics. Many praised Reeves's direction and film cinÃÆ'Â Â © ma vÃÆ' Â © ritÃÆ' Â © narrative style. It generates $ 170.8 million worldwide at the box office with a $ 25 million budget. The film ended up being the first installment of the science-fiction horror film antics, ahead of 10 Cloverfield Lane, released on March 11, 2016 and The Cloverfield Paradox, released on February 4, 2018.
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Plot
The film is presented as a snapshot of a private camcorder invented by the US Department of Defense in the area "formerly known as Central Park", with a rebuttal stating some apparitions of the "Cloverfield" designated case. The recording originally contained a recording of the last day Rob and Beth had spent time together, which was subsequently hit by a majority by the events that were filmed on Friday night, May 22, 2009, the recording produced alternating between the two.
The first segment was filmed by Rob on Monday morning, April 27. Rob and Beth got up in an apartment after a night together and they made plans to go to Coney Island that day. The tapes cut into the night of Friday, May 22, when Jason, Rob's brother, and his girlfriend, Lily, prepare a farewell party for Rob, who will move to Japan. Their friend Hud filmed testimony during the party.
After Beth had a fight with Rob and left, a suspected earthquake, causing a brief power outage across the city; local news reported an upside oil tanker near Liberty Island. When party-goers leave the building, the disconnected head of the Statue of Liberty is thrown onto the street in front of them. Hud noted what appeared to be an extraordinary creature several blocks away to tear down the Woolworth Building. Later, during the evacuation of the city, the creature's giant tail destroyed the Brooklyn Bridge, killing Jason and several others. News reports showed 42 National Army Infantry Divisions that attacked the monster. "Parasites" of smaller creatures fell from their bodies and attacked nearby pedestrians and soldiers.
Rob listens to Beth's phone message, stating that he is trapped in his apartment at Time Warner Center and can not move. Going against the crowds, Rob, Hud, Lily, and another party goer, Marlena, ventured out to Midtown Manhattan to save Beth. At 3:17 pm, they were caught in a battle between the creature and the National Guard Army and ran to Spring Street station, immediately attacked by some parasitic creatures during a fight; Marlena was bitten by one. Out of the subway through the 59th Street station, four people came to the command center and field hospital. Marlena reacts to the bite, causing her to draw blood from her eyes. She was dragged into a tent, where she apparently exploded. Rob, intend to save Beth, persuaded one of the military leaders to let him go. The man then notifies Rob when the last evacuation helicopter will depart before the military runs the "Hammer Down Protocol," which will destroy Manhattan in an attempt to kill the monster.
The group rescues Beth, impaled on open rebar, and four people make their way to the evacuation site at Grand Central Terminal, where they meet the creature once more. Lily was rushed into a Marine Corps helicopter that departed and fled. Moments later, Rob, Beth, and Hud were taken away by a second helicopter and watched the US Air Force B-2 Spirit bomb the creature. The bombing caused the creature to fall, but then fired on the protagonist's helicopter, causing it to hit Central Park.
Records jumped into the morning of Saturday, May 23, less than an hour later. The sound on the fallen helicopter radio warned that the Hammer Down protocol would begin within fifteen minutes. The three friends are conscious and run away; Hud takes the camera when the creature suddenly shows up and kills him.
Rob and Beth took the camera and took shelter under the Greyshot Arch in Central Park. When the sirens roared and the bombardment began, Rob and Beth took turns leaving their last testimony of the day's event. The bridge collapsed and the camera was thrown from Rob's hand and buried under some debris. Rob and Beth each proclaim their love for each other just before another bomb explodes, with two screams as the monster roars.
The recording ended with Rob and Beth's Coney Island on April 27th. Unbeknown to character, objects that can not be distinguished fall from the sky into the sea. Rob directs the camera to Beth and himself, and zooms in on the last one, which says, "I'm having a good day." At that moment, the tape was frozen and cut off.
After credit, obscure radio chat can be heard. This can be regarded as "Help us", but when played in reverse, it says "It's alive".
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Transmission and character
- Michael Stahl-David as Robert "Rob" Hawkins
- T.J. Miller as Hudson "Hud" Platt
- Jessica Lucas as Lily Ford
- Odette Yustman as Elizabeth "Beth" McIntyre
- Lizzy Caplan as Marlena Diamond
- Mike Vogel as Jason Hawkins
- Ben Feldman as Travis
- Billy Brown as Pryce Staff Sergeant
- Chris Mulkey as Lieutenant General Graff
- Brian Klugman as Charlie
- Theo Rossi as Antonio
- Jamie Martz as Pilot Helicopter
- Matt Reeves as Post-Credit Radio Message (unverified)
Production
Development
J. J. Abrams thought of a new monster after he and his son visited a toy store in Japan while promoting Mission: Impossible III. He explained, "We saw all these Godzilla toys, and I think we need our own American monster, and unlike King Kong, I like King Kong, King Kong is adorable and Godzilla is a captivating monster We love Godzilla But I want something crazy and intense. "
In February 2007, Paramount Pictures was secretly illuminated by Cloverfield, to be produced by Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Drew Goddard. The project was produced by the Abrams company, Bad Robot Productions. The producer of visual effects is Chantal Feghali.
The discontinued head of the Statue of Liberty was inspired by a 1981 movie poster Escape from New York , who had shown his head lying on the streets of New York. Reeves explained, "This is a very provocative picture, and it is the source that inspired producer J. J. Abrams to say, 'Now this will be an interesting idea for a movie.'"
Title
The film was originally called Cloverfield . This changed several times during production before it was decided that the original title would be used. Matt Reeves explained that the title was often replaced due to the hype caused by teaser footage. "The excitement is spreading to a level that we suddenly can not use that name anymore, so we start using all the names like Slusho and Cheese .and people always find out what we did! "The director says that" Cloverfield "is the government's case for the events caused by the monster, comparing its ownership to the Manhattan Project. "And it's not a project alone, it's the way that this case has been set, that's why it's in the trailer, and that's becoming clearer in the film.This is how they refer to this phenomenon [or] this case," says the Director. The final movie title, Cloverfield , is the name of Abrams's exit to his Santa Monica office. In turn, the road was used to lead to Santa Monica Airport, which was originally called Clover Field.
One last title, Greyshot , is proposed before the film is officially titled Cloverfield . The name Greyshot was taken from the gate that two survivors took cover at the bottom of the film. Director Reeves said that it was decided not to change the title to Greyshot because the movie was already well known as Cloverfield .
The film received a subtitle in Japan, where it was released as Cloverfield/Hakaisha ( ??????????/HAKAISHA , Kur? b? f? rudo/HAKAISHA ) . Subtitle "Destroyer" is selected by Abrams and translated into Japanese as Hakaisha ( ??? , lit. "Destroyer" ) by Paramount Japan at his request. Subtitle Kishin ( ?? , is up. "Demon [ic] God" ) selected for the spin-off manga, Cloverfield/Kishin , released exclusively in Japan.
Casting
The casting process is done in secret, without any script sent to the candidate. To prevent leakage of plot information, instead of auditioning actors with scenes from films, scripts from previous production Abrams are used, such as the television series Alias ​​and Lost . Some scenes are also written specifically for the audition process, not intended for use in movies. Although not informed of the premise of the film, Caplan declares that he received a role in Cloverfield solely because he is a fan of Abrams-produced Lost (where his former Related Production
With production estimated to have a budget of $ 30 million, major photography began in mid-June 2007 in New York. One member of the cast says that the film will look for $ 150 million, even though the producers do not feature recognizable and expensive actors. The filmmaker uses Panasonic HVX200 for most of the interior scenes, and the Sony CineAlta F23 high definition video camera to record almost all of New York's exterior scenes. Filming takes place on Coney Island, with scenes taken at Deno Wonder Wheel Amusement Park and B & B Carousel. The tank scene fired on the creature while the main characters hiding on the staircase were filmed on Hennesy Street in the Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank, CA. Several interior shots were recorded on soundstage in Downey, California. Bloomingdale in the film was actually shot at an evacuated Robinsons-May store that was being repaired in Arcadia, California. The outdoor view of Sephora and the electronics store was recorded in Downtown Los Angeles.
The film is taken and edited in a cinema style, to look like it was recorded with a handheld camera, including a jump jump similar to that found in home movies. T.J. Miller, who plays Hud, has said in interviews that he recorded a third of the film and nearly half of it went into the film. Director Matt Reeves described the presentation, "We want this to be as if someone found the Handicam, pulled out the tape and put it on the player to watch it.What you watch is a home movie that then turns into something else." Reeves explained that the pedestrian documenting the disconnected head of the Statue of Liberty with a camera phone reflecting the contemporary period. He says: "Cloverfield is very much talking about the fears and anxieties of our time, how we live our lives, constantly documenting things and putting them on YouTube, sending people videos via e-mail - we feel it's very applicable to the way people feel it now. "
VFX and CGI are produced by Double Negative and Tippett Studio effects studio.
Some filmmakers are heard but not seen in the movie. The man shouted, "My God!" repeatedly when the head of the Statue of Liberty landed down the street was producer Bryan Burk, and director Matt Reeves voiced a whispered radio broadcast at the end of the credits. After seeing the cut of the film, Steven Spielberg suggested giving the audience a clue about the fate of monsters during the climax, which resulted in the addition of a countdown that was heard on the helicopter radio and the sound of air raid sirens to signal the coming Hammer Down bombing.
Cinematographic style
The shaky cinematographic style of film cameras, dubbed "La Shakily Queasy-Cam" by Roger Ebert, caused some viewers (especially in the dark cinemas) to experience motion sickness, including nausea and temporary loss of balance. Viewers who are vulnerable to migraine call the film as a trigger. Some theaters feature films, such as the AMC Theater, providing posters and verbal alerts, telling viewers about Cloverfield's shooting style, while other theaters like the Pacific Theater just warn customers verbally at the box office about getting drunk while watching a movie and what to do if they have to get out and vomit.
Cinematography affects video coding and can cause compression artifacts due to rapid movement in the field of view.
Design creation
Visual Tom Tom and Phil Tippett's visual effects watchdog "Tippett Studio" is listed to develop a visual effect for Cloverfield . Because the visual effects are incorporated after filming, cast members are only familiar with the initial conceptual renderings of the animals and must react to creatures that are not visible during their scenes. Neville Page artist designed a monster, creating a biological reason for it, though many of his ideas, including "elongated and articulated external esophagus", will not appear on screen. The main concept is that immature creatures suffer from "separation anxiety." It is reminiscent of a real-life circus elephant that fears and pouts. The director states that "nothing is more frightening than something that is very big is scary."
Marketing
Prior to the release of the film, Paramount conducted a viral marketing campaign to promote a movie that included a viral tie-in similar to Lost Experience . The filmmakers decided to make teaser footage that would be a surprise in the light of the common media saturation, which they united during the preparation stage of the production process. The teaser was then used as the basis for the film itself. Paramount Pictures encouraged the teaser to be released without an inherent title, and the Motion Picture Association of America approved the move. Like Transformer shows a high tracking number before it was released in July 2007, the studio installed a teaser trailer for Cloverfield which shows the release date of January 18, 2008, but not the title. The second trailer was released on November 16, 2007 attached to Beowulf , confirming the title.
The studio has kept knowledge of the project secrets of the online community, an oddity cited by the presence of film lovers who follow the upcoming films. The release of controlled information on the film has been observed as a risky strategy, which can be as successful as The Blair Witch Project (1999) or disappointing as Snakes on a Plane (2006). ), the latter has produced online hype but failed to attract large audiences.
Pre-release speculation
The sudden appearance of an untitled teaser for Cloverfield, and the limited details available in the lead up to the release of the film fueled widespread media speculation over the movie plot, with many expecting it to be an adaptation of an existing property. Among the various possibilities reported, The Star Ledger suggested that the film may be based on works of H. P. Lovecraft, or new entries in the series Godzilla . The Guardian reported a possible spinoff to the Abrams TV show Lost , and misinterpreted the trailer line "It's alive!" as "This is a lion!" leading USA Today to speculate on live-action adaptation of the Japanese animated series Voltron. IGN and Time Out suggested that the film will feature an alien called " The Parasite ", which is rumored to be the working title of the film.. Elsewhere online, Slusho and Colossus have been discussed as other possible titles, as well as Awesome , even though this is dispelled by Abrams at ComicCon.
The viral marketing campaign attracted the attention of alternative reality gaming enthusiasts, hoping to uncover information about screened films online. Forum members at argn.com and unfiction.com have investigated the background of the movie, with the section "1-18-08" in Unfiction generating over 7,700 posts in August 2007. The members have studied the photos on the official film website, Potentially related MySpace, and a Comic-Con teaser poster for the movie. A popular fan art art suggests that the monster is a mutated humpback whale.
Viral tie
All main characters receive a personal Myspace page, all of which can be accessed and display the available photos, even though the blog post has been deleted.
Unlike most viral marketing campaigns, this one has little to do with plot or movie characters. Instead it focuses primarily on Slusho fiction drinks! and the fictitious company Tagruato. The puzzle web site contains Lovecraftian elements, such as Ethan Haas Was Right , originally reportedly connected to the movie. On July 9, 2007, producer J. J. Abrams stated that, while a number of websites are being developed to market the movie, the only official site that has been found is 1-18-08.com. On the site, which is now directed to Paramount Pictures main page, a collection of photos with time codes is available to collect a series of events and interpret their meaning. The images can also be reversed by repeatedly and quickly move the mouse sideways. Also, if the page is left open for six minutes, the monster's roar can be heard. Finally, Cloverfield Movie.com was created. The site provides a trailer and a number, 33287, which, when sending sms from a mobile phone, gives ringtones from the monster roots and wallpapers of ruined Manhattan. This eventually became the number of Paramount (people later received material about Iron Man , Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Kingdom Kung Fu Panda , and The Love Guru ).
Slusho Drinks! served as part of a viral marketing campaign. The drink has already appeared in the creation of the previous Abrams producer, the TV series Alias ​​â € <â € <. Website for Slusho! and Taguruato was launched to add Cloverfield mythology. The Japanese phone number on the Tagruato website is successful, but it only plays the recorded message. For example, one of the messages is: "Thanks for contacting Tagruato.Because the call volume is high, your calls have been transferred to the autoresponder service.Now there is no update.After the tone, please leave a message, and one of our partners will find you as soon as possible ". A company logo building for Tagruato can also be seen on the 2009 movie movie spot Star Trek , and Uhura ordered Slusho! during the bar scene. When Cloverfield is hosted at Comic-Con 2007, Gray Slusho! T-shirts are distributed to participants. Fans who are registered in Slusho! the website received a fictional sonar image email before the release of a movie showing the deep sea creatures heading to Manhattan. Fans who order goods receive a torn piece of Tagruato documents and Japanese newspapers and their products. A cup of Slusho! appears briefly in The Cloverfield Paradox , and it also appears in Fringe and Heroes . A Slusho! the bobblehead figure also appears shaky in the trailer and movie Cloverfield Paradox.
Burk producer explains the viral link, "It's all done with the studio... The whole experience in making this film reminds us very much of how we do Lost ." Director Reeves describes Slusho! as "part of the connectivity involved" with Abrams' Aliases and that the drink represents "meta-story" for Cloverfield . The director explains, "It's almost like the tentacles that grow out of the movie and lead, too, for the ideas in the movie.And there's this weird way in which you can go watch a movie and that's an experience... But there's also this other place in where you can get engaged where there are other types of this aspect for everyone who gets that way.All stories sort of bounce off to each other and inform each other But in the end, this movie stands on its own to become a movie.... Internet sort stories and connections and clues are, in a way, prisms and they are another way of looking at the same thing.For us, that's just an interesting aspect of storytelling. "
Merchandise
A four-week pre-installment manga series by Yoshiki Togawa titled Cloverfield/Kishin ( ??????????/KISHIN , Kur? b? f? rudo/KISHIN ) released by Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten. The story focuses on a Japanese high school student named Kishin Aiba, who somehow has a connection with the monster.
Based on the successful opening weekend of the film, Hasbro began receiving orders for a collection of 14-inch (36 cm) monster toys with authentic sounds and parasites sent to fans on December 24, 2008.
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Because of its presentation as a recording of consumer digital recorders, Cloverfield has no movie score, with the exception of the "Roar! ( Cloverfield Overture") composition by Michael Giacchino who plays on the final credits. The similarity between "Roar!" and music from the Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube has been recorded, and it has been suggested that Giacchino's introduction is a tribute to Ifukube's work, confirmed by Matt Reeves on the DVD commentary track. Sound tracks watched by William Files and Douglas Murray on Skywalker Sound.
Rob's Party Mix or Cloverfield Mix is a collection of music played in a movie-opening sequence exclusively released on Apple's iTunes Store on January 22, 2008 in lieu of. from the traditional soundtrack album. Cloverfield , "Roar! ( Cloverfield Overture)" by Michael Giacchino who plays at the end of the credit is not featured on the album, as this is a mixtape played at the party and not the official soundtrack film. The album was shared with guests at the Cloverfield premiere party held at the Dark Room in New York City on January 17, 2008.
Full soundtrack releases of all the music in the film, including Giacchino "Roar!" the final title, has now also been released exclusively on iTunes; not yet officially released in retail stores. The CD entitled Rob's Party Mix is ​​packaged in a special edition of Cloverfield available for sale at Canada's Wal-Mart store starting April 22, 2008.
Release
First published in a teaser trailer at Transformers playback, the film was released on January 17 in New Zealand, Russia and Australia; January 18 in North America; January 24 in South Korea; January 25 in Taiwan; January 31 in Germany; and February 1 in the UK, Ireland and Italy. In Japan, the film was released on April 5th.
Home media
The DVD was released on April 22, 2008, in two versions: a standard single-disc edition and a special edition "book-arm" edition sold at Suncoast and FYE retailers in the US and the Future Shop in Canada. Other exclusive stores include an exclusive bonus disc titled "TJ Miller Video Diary" with DVDs at all Best Buy retailers, an exclusive mixed CD entitled "Rob's Goin 'for Japan Party Mix" with DVDs at all Target and Wal-Mart retailers and exclusive ringtones with DVDs at all Kmart and Sears retailers. Borders also has an exclusive booklet wrapped in their DVDs.
DVD Region 2 was released on June 9 on the single edition of the disc and two disks. The steel-book limited edition is only available from HMV, while Play.com offers exclusive cover artwork. The exclusive HMV armor book contains two discs.
The DVD covers two alternative ends, which are only slightly different. The first alternative ending shows Rob and Beth exit the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station rather than on the Ferris wheel and display a different siren in the background as Rob speaks to the camera. At the end of the second alternative, right after the last blast, Beth can hear the shouts of "Rob!", Followed by a very short clip of an unknown person looking at the camera (in comments, Reeves says that it is one of the members crew) and brushing debris -puing of the lens. The film ended with the original ending clips from Rob and Beth on their Coney Island which recorded themselves on the Ferris Wheel when the camera cassettes ran out, with two differences: no timestamp in the bottom left corner of the screen, and an additional beeping tone indicating the end recording.
The Blu-ray Edition was released on June 3, 2008. It includes "Special Investigation Mode," as well as all the bonus features of 2-disc DVD in HD.
Reception
box office
Cloverfield opened at 3,411 theaters on January 18, 2008, and grossed $ 16.93 million on its opening day in the United States and Canada. It generated $ 40.1 million on its opening weekend, which at the time was the most successful January release (record was later taken by Ride Along in 2014 with a weekend gross of $ 41.5 million). Worldwide, it has grossed $ 170,602,318, making it the first film in 2008 to be over $ 100 million. In Japan, the film topped the box office rankings until the release of Kamen Rider Den-O & amp; Kiva: Climax Deka took the top spot on his first weekend.
Critical reception
Critical reception for Cloverfield is generally positive. On the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds 77% approval of "Certified Fresh" based on 202 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's consensus reads, "Sort of Blair Witch Project which is crossed with Godzilla , Cloverfield economically fast-paced, smart style, and filled with fear ". According to Metacritic, the film has received an average score of 64, based on 37 reviews.
Marc Savlov from The Austin Chronicle calls the film "the most powerful and original creation feature I've ever seen in my adult movie life. [...] A bloody, A-class movie, exciting." He quotes the direction of Matt Reeves, the "whip-smart, stylistically invisible" script and the "subconscious awakening of the paranoia, our current terror-phobia" as the key to film success, says that telling the story through the camera lens of one character "works really well". Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter calls it "very effective", generally praising the effects and "film claustrophobic intensity". He said that although the characters are "not very interesting or developed", there is "something refreshing about a monster movie that is not filled with the usual suspects". Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said the film was "secretly subversive, [a] very clever little gem," and that while its character is "vapid, twenty something nincompoops" and acting " impressive ", the decision to tell the tale through the amateur recording was" brilliant. "Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that the film is" quite scary at times "and quotes an unfounded" scrolling 9/11 " He concludes that "all in all, this is an effective film, spreading the special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it's all happening as we see it."
Todd McCarthy of Variety calls this film an "old-fashioned monster movie dressed in trendy new threads", praises the special effects, "nihilistic attitude" and "post-9/11 overlay anxiety", but says, "On finally, [it] is not much different from all the features of the rogue creatures that have come before it ". Scott Foundas of LA Weekly is very critical of the use of film scenes that recall the 9/11 attacks in New York City and call them "cheap and opportunistic". He suggested that the film was involved in a "stealth" attempt at social commentary and compared it to Don Siegel's films, George A. Romero and Steven Spielberg, saying, "Where the filmmakers have something meaningful to say about the state of the world and [...] human nature, Abrams does not say much about anything ". Manohla Dargis at the New York Times called the "tacky" allusion, saying, "[Images] might make you think about the attack, and you might condemn the filmmaker for their rudeness, insensitivity or lack of imagination," but that "the movie is too stupid to offend anything but your intelligence". He concludes that the film "serves as a showcase for realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend into hunted humans whose destiny is intended to arouse pity and fear but instead inspires yawning and humiliation." Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com called the movie "poorly built, humorless and emotionally sadistic", and concluded by saying that the movie "took 9/11 trauma and turned it into just another random spectacle to aim and shoot". Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune warned that viewers might feel "nauseous" on the references to September 11, but that "another order [...] brings a real jolt" and that the tactic is "crude, but not undeniably gripped ". He calls the movie "stupid", but "fast and dirty and effectively rough", concluding that despite it being "a tougher, more demographic brand of fun counting", he enjoys the movie. Bruce Paterson of Cinephilia describes the film as "a successful experiment in style but not always a successful story for those who want a dramatic closure". Some critics also point out similarities with the Half-Life video game series, especially the "Ant-lion" monster of Half-Life 2, and the first constant-the perspective of people.
Empire named it the fifth best movie of 2008. The French movie journal Cahiers du Cinà © à © ma named the film as the third best movie of 2008. Bloody Disgusting ranked twenty list of "Top 20 Horror Movies of the Decade", with an article calling the movie "Brilliant pride, to be sure, backed up by a genius early marketing campaign that follows a philosophy that is roughly for a seductive effect... like Blair Witch almost ten years earlier, Cloverfield helped prove, especially in the first half hour, that what you did not see could be the scariest of all. "
Accolades
Sequel
At Cloverfield premiere , director Matt Reeves talks about what the sequel looks like if the movie works. According to Reeves:
When we were on the set filming scene we talked about the possibilities and direction of how the sequel could go. The preoccupation of this movie is that it may not be the only film made that night, there might be another movie! In this day and age people filmed their lives on their camera and Handycam phones, uploading them to YouTube... That's an interesting thought about it.
In another interview, Reeves stated:
There was a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a man recording something on the side of the bridge, and Hud saw it shoot and he turned around and he saw the ship that had turned upside down and saw the Statue of Liberty headless, and then he came back and this guy taped it for a while. In my mind it was two films intersecting for a moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there were so many different viewpoints, and there were several different movies at least going on that night and we saw only one part from the other.
Reeves also pointed out that the last scene on Coney Island showed something falling into the ocean in the background without explanation. This is probably a satellite owned by a fictitious Japanese media company, Tagruato, or the creature itself. A piece of corporate news on the Tagruato website mentioned that a piece of the Japanese Chimpanzine Government satellite fell to the Atlantic. Producers Bryan Burk and J. J. Abrams also expressed their thoughts about the possibility of a sequel to Entertainment Weekly . According to Burk, "The creative team has perfected all the backstory that, if we're lucky, we might be able to explore the upcoming movies". Abrams stated that he did not want to rush into the development of a sequel just because the first movie had been a success; He explains that he prefers to make the right sequel to the previous movie.
In late January 2008, Reeves entered preliminary talks with Paramount to direct the sequel, which is likely to be filmed before another Reeves project, The Invisible Woman . Reeves said:
The idea of ​​doing something very different is very encouraging. We hope it creates a different movie experience. The thing about doing a sequel is I think we all really feel protective of that experience. The key here is if we can find something interesting enough and that's quite different for us to do, then it might be worth doing. Of course it also depends on how Cloverfield is done all over the world and all that stuff too, but really, for us creatively, we just want to find something that will be another challenge.
In September 2008, when asked by CraveOnline what the current status is at Cloverfield 2 , Abrams states that at this point, they are still discussing it; However, he still felt reluctant to work on a sequel. In the same interview, Abrams said that they are working on something that "can be a bit cool." When asked if it would happen at a different location, Abrams responded by saying that "it would be a very different thing but too early to talk about." In a 2010 interview with Attack of the Show! Abrams stated that they might abandon the shooting style, stating that he and the rest of the crew wanted to try something new.
The movie Super 8 initially speculated to be a sequel or prequel for Cloverfield, but this was quickly rejected by Abrams.
In January 2011, the horror movie fan site BloodyDisgusting.com declared that the Cloverfield sequel might actually never happen. They talk to director Reeves and he says that if he can get time to sit down and talk to Drew Goddard and JJ Abrams about the possibility of a sequel they will definitely make a sequel, but because all of Reeves's third busy schedule does not see this happening anytime soon. In a 2011 interview, Matt Reeves gave an update on Cloverfield 2 status, saying:
Getting the right ideas together has been time consuming. Ã,... you'll see it - we just do not know when [laughs] Ã,... Right now we're talking about pretty much stories. Drew Goddard, who wrote the original, will write a sequel and JJ Abrams is deeply involved. However, the three of us are so busy that getting the right idea together has taken a long time.
When asked if the sequel will be shot in real time, Reeves stated, "You see, that's the hard part: we want to be shot like the first, but how can you continue that idea a second time?... We have a lot of affection for that genuine and sequel can not only be the same thing.But it's hard when you have to have a monster that destroys things once again. "
In a 2012 interview, the screenwriter, Goddard, gives the latest news, "I'm ready, I'm ready to do it... someone calls JJ and tells her to move, but because Matt and JJ and I are lucky enough to be busy, it's hard to sync our schedule. very excited to go back to that world. "When asked if an idea is on paper, he replied," If you ask us what we want to do, you will get three different answers, that is how the first film. "Aesthetics of < i> Cloverfield
We did not set out to create a franchise, we set out to make a good movie. But I love that world and the universe, so if there's a good idea that makes us excited, and we feel there's a reason to do it, we'll do it. The nice thing about working with a man like J.J., and the power he gets, the studio will not force him to do anything. And he can already say, we'll do it when we're ready. We will not do it just because it will help you, we will do it because there is an idea that excites us. And that's what was informed in our discussion. We do not feel like we have to, so like 'Can we come up with something that excites us enough to do it?'
On January 14, 2016, 10 Cloverfield Lane was revealed by Bad Robot Productions, with Abrams as the producer and Reeves and Goddard credited as executive producer. The film is described as a "blood relative" but not a literal sequel to Cloverfield by Abrams, who produced the film. The film was released on March 11, 2016 and marked the debut of feature film director Dan Trachtenberg.
During an interview with Abrams to promote 10 Cloverfield Lane, he said the creative team behind the original had some ideas for developing Cloverfield 2 but released a movie like Godzilla and Pacific Rim led them to abandon them when they found the concept of Kaiju movie played. However, Abrams also suggested that he had thought of something that if they were fortunate enough to make it "can be so cool that it connects some of the stories" in future films, even tease the larger Cloverfield of the universe. Interviews with Dan Trachtenberg and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 10 directors and actresses Cloverfield Lane, respectively, confirm that the film is, and is always meant to be, an extension of the first film, with Trachtenberg calling it "Cloververse".
In October 2016, it was reported that a project produced by Abrams, entitled temporarily
In the April 2018 conference at CinemaCon, Abrams stated that "we are really developing a true, dedicated Cloverfield sequel." He also said that the sequel will be released theatrically, a departure from the previous installment, The Cloverfield Paradox , which was only released on Netflix. Abrams goes on to say that the Cloverfield sequel will come "soon."
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- Cloverfield in Box Office Mojo
- Cloverfield at Rotten Tomatoes
- Cloverfield in Metacritic
- Cloverfield in AllMovie
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