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**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:32 pm

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cinemaniac1979 · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 3

Several sequel ideas I'd like to see...

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:04 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:25 am

bewarethanatos · Boot Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 57

I'm going to put a spoiler around this, just because if you don't feel like reading my opinion, you don't have to. All I can say is:

After seeing the movie, I wonder how there can be a sequel.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:19 am

blackmesa · Kilroy Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Long time lurker here, just wanted to post my thoughts.

I think that if the sequel is the same time line from a different POV it will turn the unique aspect of the movie into a gimmick. I mean, I like the idea of seeing the event from the same angle, I just dont know how they can keep it fresh. Enough people dont really understand the point of the movie as is (being more about the little people than the big monster) and a sequel that does the same would only scream cash-cow. Being from the POV of a solider would be cool but might seem weird, its kinda hard to fight and shoot (film) at the same time.

Personally I think the perfect sequel would be to come out of the frame created by the format of the first movie and show the military analyzing and talking about the footage. It would be quite a spectacle if they used that to show all sorts of snippets of data from the attack. So they could create a collage that takes maybe, news footage from the rest of the world, then pictures/ video from other survivors, then answer some questions by interviewing survivors or showing news footage of the Chuai station, etc... Basically wrap up the story without doing what every other movie does by showing the planes bombing MGP, him making a nasty noise, and then dying, then end.

Cloverfield didnt follow the standard linear monster movie path and that was why it was so interesting. I think showing people trying to figure out what happened would just make the story seem that much more real. I mean look at every major history event from WW2 to JFK to 9/11. Yea we know the main story enough to be satisfied with it and have some closure yet there are still unanswered questions. And lets face it, this is a JJ Abraham movie, nothing is ever going to be 100% answered.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:15 pm

Ben'Jamin1971 · Greenhorn Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Indiana

I think they could have added another 30 minutes to the movie to wrap up some of big questions that everybody is wanting answered. I mean. someone found the footage, right? When? Who? My opinion is that they could have made this movie complete and then if there were cries for a sequel, gone into a back story or a godzilla-like thing with scientists and every-stuff!

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:47 pm

soupcan58 · Boot Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 18

An interesting theory/ possible news thing on Explosm:
http://forums.explosm.net/showpost.php?p=350534&postcount=139

Could anyone see if there is a sauce to prove this true?

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:00 pm

samuron · Boot Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 22

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:02 pm

Ben'Jamin1971 · Greenhorn Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Indiana

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:23 pm

mercurix · Veteran Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 70

This was posted on Yahoo news.

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/justthefacts_cloverfield.html

The 5th item on the list mentions some details about a possible sequel. Not sure how they'd make that work though. They should film an extra camera like it says and add it to the DVD and make the special edition DVD like a case file full of different clips and info.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:30 pm

McPhearson · Decorated Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 288

I think that many people would be turned off by a sequel that had the same style, different cast. Instead, I see the sequel to Cloverfield working like the sequels to Godzilla, in which scientists and officials follow up on the events that the monster dished out in the first installment.

My guess, is the second film will, if it is straight-forward, begin with a military officer's voice placed over footage seen from the first film and other helicopters present. The voice would say something like, "At approximately 7:15 PM, May yadda yadda, the specimen known as [insert prototypical name] rose from the New York harbor, and proceeded into the city.."

From there, I don't know if the second movie would be about the hunt, or Tagruato getting THEIR due-and-proper, or what... I have no idea.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:52 am

the_saint · Boot Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 58

This may have been posted, but it was new to me: plus I'm just WAITING for my first trout. Very Happy

Whee!

Details on a sequel:
http://www.fearnet.com/MCNewsDetailPage.aspx?catid=30&mid=12649

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:05 pm

TheRabbit · Boot Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 54

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**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:10 pm

OliMango · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 1189 Location: Vegas

A sequel would be nice, but they would have to be very, very careful.

Once thing wrong and J.J. gets shot by some Cloverfield fanatic.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:14 pm

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