Matt Reeves Teases Cloverfield’s Next Monster, Kind Of

Fifteen years in the past this week, audiences lastly came upon what Cloverfield was. After months of hypothesis, the discovered footage monster film from producer J.J. Abrams, author Drew Goddard, and director Matt Reeves roared into the field workplace and shortly turned a fan favourite. Two tangentially associated follow-ups got here subsequent, and now the director, who has since gone on to larger issues just like the Planet of the Apes prequels and The Batman, has teased what would possibly doubtlessly come subsequent.

“There’s no question it would be a viral movie, right?” Reeves stated to Syfy when requested if a brand new Cloverfield follow-up might play into covid fears. “It would be about a virus. The funny thing about making that movie, like I said, for me, it opened up the idea of making genre movies and specifically about exploring your own feelings about things. I had such anxiety that was related to… I mean, I still have such anxiety. I think I wouldn’t be a filmmaker if I didn’t have anxiety.”

“Every movie that I’ve made is some sort of depiction of my internal anxiety,” Reeves continued. “I think today, it would absolutely come from the uncertainty of what you can’t see and the idea that being next to someone, you could catch something. There have been some really scary [viral thrillers]. Contagion is certainly really scary … There would be a scary [Cloverfield] movie to do for sure about the spread of the virus.”

In the identical interview, Reeves teased—however refused to speak about—the Cloverfield franchise persevering with as a result of it’s been some time. Almost precisely 5 years have handed for the reason that final movie within the franchise, The Cloverfield Paradox, was shock dropped on Netflix on a Super Bowl Sunday. That movie laid the groundwork to hyperlink itself not simply to the unique film, however arguably one of the best one of many bunch, 10 Cloverfield Lane, from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. In doing so, Paradox mainly made it clear a Cloverfield film might be something, and it appears subsequent time, it may need to do with a killer virus.

The identical Syfy interview additionally has some attention-grabbing ideas on the unique Cloverfield monster itself, which Reeves confirms was an alien child who dropped to Earth within the movie’s climatic flashback and was in search of its mom. Head over there to take a look at the complete interview. The new 4K anniversary version of Cloverfield is now obtainable.

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