It’s always dangerous when I want a sequel. I was so hyped up on the Matrix, I was just begging for more. Yeah, that worked out well. So it’s with mixed feelings that I clamor for more Cloverfield. But here’s hoping for the best.

Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is in talks with Paramount to direct a second Cloverfield film. Let the speculation begin!

In an interview with ComingSoon, Matt Reeves hinted at a possible direction for the sequel:

This was so fun ’cause we’d never done anything like it, and I think we’d want to find a similar challenge, to find a way to have its roots in this but be fresh and new, otherwise you’re just repeating yourself. There’s a moment on the Brooklyn Bridge, and there was a guy filming something on the side of the bridge, and Hud sees him filming and he turns over and he sees the ship that’s been capsized and sees the headless Statue of Liberty, and then he turns back and this guy’s briefly filming him. In my mind that was two movies intersecting for a brief moment, and I thought there was something interesting in the idea that this incident happened and there are so many different points of view, and there are several different movies at least happening that evening and we just saw one piece of another. That idea sort of tickled me. We’ll have to see if anyone would want a sequel. If the movie does well and we find a compelling reason to do so then it would be fun to do a sequel.

It’s clear that we want one. If the sequel is filmed in shaky cam, I really hope more is revealed about the Clovie’s backstory. Another movie where random idiots that we don’t particularly care for run around and probably die just wouldn’t cut it. We want more of Clovie and we want to know more about it/him/her. That’s the only way a sequel would make any kind of sense.

[Via Variety and ComingSoon]

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