J.J. Abrams directing untitled Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project in NYC movie?

So the series is just going to be bottom of the Black List scripts with some sort of Cloverfield reference spliced in? Like Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood movies?

It'll still be more consistent than whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is.

This is a dud but the last three seconds are fun

whatever Ridley Scott plan for more Alien movies is

1) Spend the budget on design
2) Cobble a plot together on the morning you start shooting
3) ?????
4) Profit

this was really really bad and i don't understand why they did it

i mean, not fun bad, just boring terribly acted embarrassingly written nonsensical bad

OK I read a little bit more about this, sounds like it was a bad movie they knew came out bad and they thought they could resuscitate it commercially by slapping a coat of cloverfield on it?

It could be, but I doubt it? Like 10CL there's a plot that could be divorced from the original film completely, but there are a lot more references in this one. They could have grafted it in, but they say "Cloverfield" too much for it to be coincidence, unless there was some reshooting/dialogue dubbing

In a live Facebook Q&A on Wednesday, February 8th, The Cloverfield Paradox producer J.J. Abrams answered some questions about the film, which was abruptly released to Netflix immediately after the 2018 Super Bowl, to near-universal negative critical response. The tone of the live panel was positive and upbeat, but the responses may have inadvertently revealed why Cloverfield Paradox feels so fractured. Among other things, Abrams says the film was already shooting when he and the filmmakers figured out how to make it into a Cloverfield movie.

“Originally, it was written by Oren Uziel, who wrote a draft that was its own thing, and was around for a while,” Abrams said. When his production company, Bad Robot, acquired the script, “we started to think, ‘What are ways that this might fit into the world?’ But when we started shooting the movie, it was still something we were thinking about. Because the idea for the Cloverfield series was not so much that it be this narrative throughline, but more that they be these really fun sort of thrill rides. Like, if you imagine an amusement park, that’s a Cloverfield amusement park, and every ride has a different purpose, but they all connect in some way or another.”

“While we were shooting, we were making adjustments,” Abrams said. “This was a movie that went through many different iterations as it went along.” He added that the film’s Earth scenes were only built out after test viewers insisted on knowing what was happening on the planet during the story, which otherwise takes place on a space station.

I mean I totally like the concept that there are all these different movies, each representing its own genre, and each kind of loosely Cloverfield-branded; it's just that this movie is a very crappy product and I don't understand why Abrams would want to incorporate it into the brand.

The Earth scenes, in particular. WHO CARES? There is a generic "child in peril" and the plot of this part is... the husband tells somebody to call her parents? And then the resolution of the suspense is .... somebody calls her parents?

This was, for instance, much more amateurishly acted and scripted than a typical second-tier SyFy show that no one watches or takes notice of.

It seemed like a really odd fit and *possibly* answered too many questions through expository dialogue and inserted earth footage outside of the space station. The main problem in the movie is a completely different science fiction plot, the connection to the series is literally staged as a side effect ("the cloverfield effect"!)

The heart of the connective glue being a tv interview with Donal Logue, who seems to have filmed his entire scientific gibberish spiel in an actual remote location, was definitely some prime cheap syfy channel material

Figures that the worst one would be the one that has the origin story tho

there is absolutely no reason to ever have one, which means Abrams was definitely going to do it and fuck it up

I just rewatched Cloverfield today. I am very happy that most of this thread is about what douches the characters were. They should've named the movie "Rob...Rob! ROB!"

that's my name so every original friend in the world that I saw that trailer with kept going "LOL IT'S ABOUT U NEANER"