{"id":48496,"date":"2021-01-29T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=48496"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:32:56","slug":"new-cloverfield-film-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/29\/new-cloverfield-film-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"New CLOVERFIELD Film In Development At Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paramount and J J Abrams is looking to resurrect the Cloverfield<\/strong> franchise and have just hired a writer to do so.<\/p>\n

Joe Barton, who is also showrunning Warner Brothers’s The Batman<\/strong> Gotham City police force spinoff series for HBO Max, has been hired to write a new installment in the science-fiction monster franchise, according to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will it be a direct sequel to the original film or something just loosely connected thematically? Given the veils of secrecy around previous franchise installments don’t expect to hear news of that sort for a while. The Hollywood Reporter does say that unlike the original, this new film will not be a found footage style film.<\/p>\n

The original Cloverfield<\/strong>, which depicted a group of twenty-somethings trying to flee Manhattan in the midst of a giant monster attack, captured the public’s imagination with its allegorical retelling of the 9\/11 terror attacks. Made on a small budget of just $25 million, the film ultimately grossed $172 million worldwide. That box office was driven in part by a marketing campaign that gave people small mysteries relating to the film to solve.<\/p>\n

The film spawned two sequels – 10 Cloverfield Lane<\/strong> and The Cloverfield Paradox<\/strong>. Both films were originally developed as their own unique projects with the studio folding them under the Cloverfield moniker simply because they shared some science-fiction and horror tropes. 10 Cloverfield Lane<\/strong> started life as a screenplay titled The Cellar<\/strong> and went into production under the title Veranda<\/strong>. The Cloverfield Paradox<\/strong> originally started life as the science-fiction horror story The God Particle<\/strong>, but got slapped with the Cloverfield<\/strong> tag and a few reshoots to reinforce that when Paramount realized that they may have had a dud on their hands. They quietly sold the film to Netflix, who surprise premiered it right after the 2018 Super Bowl. It was a move that generated a brief burst of excitement for the film, until everyone saw it and realized how bad it actually was.<\/p>\n

With the failure of The Cloverfield Paradox<\/strong>, it seemed as if the franchise was going on hiatus for while. At least until someone came along with a good enough idea to excite Abrams and Paramount about a new film. And apparently that someone is Joe Barton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The science-fiction horror franchise is coming back from the dead courtesy of HBO Max’s THE BATMAN spinoff series showrunner.<\/div>\n

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