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[OliMango]

[SPEC] Sequels

[Some Thing]

If the movie does well at the box-office...I'm pretty sure they'll make a sequel...

...but I don't think it'll be another hand-held version.
Rather, it would be a full movie production that could go into explicit detail about the monster's origins, etc.

[OliMango]

[airteff]

Yeah if the movie hits big at the box office (which is a good possibility because there is gonna be alot of people seeing it on 1-18-08 )

I think it would be interesting if the sequel took on a completly different format from this one.

The two ideas that cross my mind would be news footage like documentary style almost with members of the military viewing the footage or commenting on it.

The other would be a more straight forward monster movie, the military trying to stop MGP as he destroys more cities.

I am still hoping that at some point in the movie Hud drops the camera and runs like hell and escapes and we get a movie with Hud as the main character

[JookNy21]

It would be awesome if the sequel would like a "Cloverfield: The Beginning" type flick, they did that idea with the latest Halloween movie a few months back..for anyone that didnt see it, the movie starts out in Michael Myers childhood instead of typical present day, and thats what most of the movie was about, the destruction and chaos he cause way in the past as a child..and that can correlate with this monster sequel in a way.....Maybe something like this:

The sequel starts out many many years ago in the middle of the ocean at a station deep sea explorers are in submarine or boat doing research on deep sea drilling and they go missing, like the monster had awoken previous to the nyc present day something like that...and it will revolve more around the backstory ex. Tagruato, the stations, nectar, Ganu....how he came to power...previous destruction by the monster years ago...etc.

[xboyonfirex]

the way I see it- if they make a sequel and so on, it'll be by a different director/producer.

As far as the issue of whether or not it'll be handheld or not... I feel that if they strip this movie of one of its biggest aspects, it'll do poorly. I mean, yeah- I know "The Blair Witch Project" was bad, the the sequel was even worse- why: because the stripped "Blair Witch" of one of its biggest aspects; POV perspective.

This movie WILL be known for its unique marketing scheme, the handheld perspective, J.J. Abrams, and hopefully- the monster.

Personally, I think the part that says, "incident site U.S. 447 area" could easily leave it open to the idea of more than one movie.

[john locke]

dont you think that would be limited in it's delivery though? We've pretty much sussed most of the backstory and that which we havent will probably be answered in the lead up to, or in the film! plus MGP couldnt wreak too much damage without everyone discovering it!

xboyonfirex, Im with you on that!JJ wouldnt want to spoil his originality by doing a sequel! athough as you point out the "incident site U.S. 447 area" does add credence to sequels

[vorondill]

So then the sequel will probably be like a prequel, still done through the perspective of handheld camera and filmed by a member of tidowave.

It will document thier attempt to bring down Tagruato and journey to Chuai station and find the origins of the monster.

[xboyonfirex]

[desert9090]

Wow I was thinking of posting this bulletin. I've had deja vu allllll day today.

I was wondering if they'd call it Cloverfield 2 or like with batman make it 'the dark knight'

[JookNy21]

yeah basically a prequel movie would be the best bet documenting the origins of the monster. That name I mentioned would be cool, "Cloverfield: The Beginning"...and yeah to keep the realism flowing, i would recommend they use a handheld camera style again, but not sure who i would place the one holding it...maybe just a deep sea researcher recording everything...maybe hes apart of a undercover operation of the whole Ganu empire, what their plans are and the monster as well, and he wants to document his findings to the world...

[airteff]

[xboyonfirex]

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[Some Thing]

I'd picture another movie as both a prequel and sequel.
It could start off in the past showing quick, clipped scenes of the monster being discovered/created.
It could then shift to some shots from the hand-held cam from Cloverfield.

From there they can go into a new story of the monster attacking another city.

I don't want to see another hand-held movie, because it will have already been done.

[bloopbloop]

If they made a Cloverfield prequel in POV perspective then it would probably be about Teddy and Tidowave.