Don't be surprised by another Cloverfield sequel

Unless this new one breaks the trend, the Cloverfield sequels were born from non-Cloverfield-related screenplays that abandoned the first film’s found-footage style and creatures. For 10 Cloverfield Lane, Paramount added a space invader ending to a script called The Cellar, a tense single-location thriller about a supposed alien attack revealed to be very real in the film’s final minutes. The second sequel, The Cloverfield Paradox, was based on a script called God Particle and was again rewritten to feature the franchise’s monsters. Yet audiences and critics rejected the Paradox, even though it included monsters from the Mile High Club (a club for monsters over 26,000 feet tall, pervs). There was even some talk about using A Quiet Place as an entryway into the series before it was determined that Quiet Place could stand its own four space-knuckled legs.

Anvari was hired to direct the movie in 2022, with a script by Joe Barton, which is a good sign that this might be the first intentionally written Cloverfield sequel ever. We’ll find out when we buy a ticket to a movie called A Walk Through Clovers, a romantic dramedy that we’re reasonably sure does not feature a kaiju.