Sunday
16Nov2008
'Cloverfield' Director Keeps Sequel Options Open
Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 5:10AM
Cloverfield director
Matt Reeves
wound up on a lot more radars after the success of that monster movie, one of
the biggest January releases ever. And he'll be making
The Invisible Woman pretty soon, which may have
a misleading title.
Among the concepts being tweaked is to move the events of the sequel to another part of the world. “When we were in Japan we thought, wouldn’t it be cool to do it here,” Reeves admitted. That would be a nice tip of the cap to the big lizard of all monster movies, but it does seem rather gimmicky.
Then there's the idea that the sequel wouldn't happen immediately after what takes place in Cloverfield, "but had intersections with the original," which sounds impossibly vague to me. That's like master class material in J.J. Abrams' Detail Evasion.
So it sounds like he wants to do a follow-up even if he can't pin down what direction he wants to take. “I think if we find something that would be incredibly fun to make and that we would want to watch then that’s what would push it over the top. It’s a weird puzzle.”
Reader Comments (6)
Cloverfield was nothing more than a basic premise that was manifestly underdeveloped. Very little in the film made any sense. The Host was so much more accomplished in every way. It had a story that held together and characters that you could care about. By contrast, I despised the characters in Cloverfield and couldn't wait for the monster to get them.
It seems that the ideas for the potential sequel are even more vague. The cause of this problem if of course JJ Abrams himself. I have seen a great deal of hubris in my career and I can report that JJ has it bad.
He has done some decent work, mainly in his early writing. The whole charade as a demon producer doesn't wash. He just had some success with a really crappy TV-series but that doesn't give him a midas touch. Most successful TV series are crap.
I predict that JJ Abrams career will dwindle from now on. People will say that he lost it, not realising that he never had much it to start with.
LengthyJohnson, surely you jest! Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I thought Cloverfield was an excellent movie! It had lots of action, unexpected suspense. I think if they were to do a sequel, they should come in where the army finds and picks up the camera...and then go back to show how they destroyed or got rid of the monsters.
Of course I'm not joking.
The whole film is disconnected. The first part where you get to know the characters is too long and boring. Also, you find out that the characters are shallow, self-obsessed and, honestly, stupid.
Then a monster appears for no reason and we hardly get to see it. All we see is the stupid shallow people running around acting like idiots annoying the heck out of you in a ways that you hadn't realised were possible.
In fact, I couldn't wait for the monster to kill the lot and I am disappointed that he only got the last few at the end. He should have eaten all of them at the party and saved me 45 minutes to do better things.
It was a great movie for the very reasons you've cited for it being poor ...
Yes, of course.
Bad is the new good.
"Some thing has found us...Again!"