J.J. Abrams stuns fans by dropping surprise Cloverfield 2 trailer... as it's revealed secret [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 15, 2016 | Kate Thomas

[C19fan]

He's been relentlessly promoting big budget blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So cinema-goers were shocked when J.J. Abrams dropped a trailer for Cloverfield 2 during US screenings of 13 Hours on Thursday night, offering a first glimpse at the secretive follow-up to the 2008 monster flick. The director had given no indication he was attached to the film as a producer, let alone that the sequel, revealed to be called 10 Cloverfield Lane, is ready for release.

[C19fan]

I enjoyed the original "Cloverfield" for what is was. It was pretty impressive for a budget around $20 MM.

[chae]

It’s not a direct sequel though. Abrams said that it’s “blood relative” of the CLoverfield monster though.

[jsanders2001]

Yep. Take out abou the first 15 mins of that film and it woul’ve veen almost perfect.

[skeeter]

Cloverfield actually made the whole Godzilla genre work pretty well. Better than the Godzilla remake, IMO.

[SJSAMPLE]

More shakey-cam?
No thanks.

[Jeff Chandler]

In the sequel, 19-year-old Beh, a Specials Forces Ninja with fine facial features and a model’s cheekbones, senses the imminent arrival of the space monster, a moody alien with thick, luxurious hair, and springs to action while National Guard soldiers fumble around (to great comic effect) trying to figure out how to fire their weapons . . .

[RaceBannon]

I saw the preview last night

meh...

rent it

well, it didnt show much, so..

[Kartographer]

Sorry JJ you got 85 minutes of my life with the first one! Fool me once same on me. Fool me twice.......

[FunkyZero]

I liked the story line and some of the production; over all it was a really good movie. I'm more of a fan of movies that drive your imagination rather than rely on effects. For instance, you hardly get any good views of the "monster", or whatever it is. I'm also a huge low budget sci-fi guy... the more cheesy they are, the more I like them for some reason.

That being said, I can't stand these first person video camera thing anymore. It may have worked on one or two movies, but I'm way over that... now it just annoys me.

[T-Bone Texan]

Puke-Cam!

My theater had to put up warning notices at the ticket box.

[discostu]

No shaky cam. Not found footage style at all from the looks of it.

[BenLurkin]

Cloverfield is definitely worth seeing.

A sequel? Not so sure.

[stylecouncilor]

Cloverfield is great, but I’m underwhelmed by this new trailer.