WTF? 10 Cloverfield Lane?!

You know, with the Internet and social media like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and all that jazz, it’s extremely difficult for a movie studio to release a film completely under the radar.  Even more rare is when a trailer is dropped two months before the film is supposed to be released.  It just doesn’t happen.  But with all the fuss over Deadpool, Batman V. Superman, and all those big time blockbusters, something like this just shows up out of nowhere.  I’m going to assume that this is a spin-off of sorts from Cloverfield, a found-footage Kaiju monster movie from 2008.  If that is the case, I’m absolutely down for it.  Now, after Cloverfield was released, there was a lot of speculation that a sequel was going to be in the works, given how the film ended, but all talk about any follow-up had ceased shortly after the film hit home video.  I knew that they were doing some writing or some such, but where the hell did THIS come from?  Apparently, this teaser was attached to Michael Bay’s 13 Hours film.

Seriously, how the hell did we not know about this?  Usually a film is generally announced before it starts filming.  It’s standard procedure for MOST film companies.   I loved Cloverfield.  I thought it was very interesting in the way it was made, filmed and produced.  It was a solid thriller.  It was also a found-footage film, a genre which I’m STILL not really a big fan of, but I’m warming up to it.  10 Cloverfield Lane stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher, Jr.  What’s it about?  I don’t have a fucking clue.  Neither does anybody else.  The fact that J.J. Abrams, who is producing the film, managed to sneak this under MY radar is a major achievement.  Congratulations, J.J. Abrams:  We have been successfully bamboozled.  Now I’m curious about what you got there.  The film releases on March 11, 2016.  That’s LESS than two months away.  I’m going to assume that this is a low-budget movie.  That makes sense, Cloverfield was pretty low-budget for what it was.  This is a pretty short post by my usual standards, but I figured this was something I’d talk about.  Very few movies of this sort get by me.  Bravo.  Let’s just hope that it’s any good.  If it’s not, we can close the book on the franchise for good.  I’ve got my fingers crossed.  Please be good, please be good, please be good.

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