There was always the danger that mass online embracing of Cloverfield would end badly: Look what the enthusiasm of geeks like me did to movies like Snakes on a Plane. But that doesn't seem to have happened to J.J. Abrams' and Matt Reeve's post-9/11 monster movie, which had a $46 million dollar opening weekend. It dropped precipitously on its second weekend, but with a $25 million dollar budget, the movie is already profitable.
Clearly we're getting a sequel. Paramount Pictures is already in talks with Matt Reeves and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Drew Goddard about coming back to do Cloverfield 2--once that little matter of the Hollywood-crippling WGA Strike is settled.
I like Cloverfield a lot, but I'm not sure how they'd handle a sequel. Paramount PR reps were talking about doing Cloverfield 2 in another city, but I think that would get tedious quickly. A better idea is to make Cloverfield 2 happen on the same night but from a different perspective, so we start piecing the story together through two viewpoints.
Cloverfield 2 Is On [UGO Movie Blog]
