A Complete Guide to The Cloverfield Franchise

[@ahobimo732]

I remember exploring the Cloverfield marketing ARG before seeing the movie in theatre. It all implied that the monster was unleashed by a Japanese company messing around at the bottom of the ocean.

[@Damidas]

Yeah it would’ve been cool as a prequel to Pacific Rim

[@billblaski9523]

That ARG was tight! You'd go to the Tagurato and Slusho websites and would get secret pictures of something deep in the ocean that was apparently woken up by a satellite that fell in the ocean, which you can see in the movie but nobody would even notice it unless u knew where to look

[@Kehwanna]

​@@DamidasFunny you mention that. It was always my headcanon that it was a prequel to Pacific Rim.

[@cursethemountain]

JJ's track record makes me think that he probably has no real answer to the questions you're asking

[@willandwillstudios]

@@cursethemountain the answer is "evil energy company did it"

[@randallbesch2424]

@@willandwillstudios companies aren't evil just their operators and owners.

[@willandwillstudios]

@@randallbesch2424 and investors, board of directors, lobbyists and PACs associated with them

[@davismorgan99]

LOST is kinda nuts because he legitimately didn’t have answers to a lot of stuff he set up in Season 1 but then the writing team got to work and put together an interesting mythology that actually really works if you take the time to decode it. I love that show but knew there was some stuff that was poorly explained. Then I watched the LOST Explained channel and am now convinced the writers are geniuses haha

[@simonmacomber7466]

Even if you got JJ Abrams to sit down with you, he couldn't explain everything to you because there _is_ no explanation. His problem with "Mystery Box" stories is that he creates the mystery, but never bothers to create the solution. He doesn't even care about the solution because the "mystery" is supposed to be enough to get people to watch his movies or shows. None of it is prepared, not thought goes into the reasons _why,_ he just throws everything at the wall to see what sticks.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

This, pretty much. Also Marvel has made saying "it's a multiverse" and letting fans draw their own conclusions an easy and accepted way to handwave away inconsistencies, so any future movies are probably going to lean even harder on that rather than trying to actually tie everything together in any logical way.

[@swarple]

Personally I don’t actually mind that in and of itself. I think these stories are creepier without an explanation, and no answer would be satisfactory. The real problem imo is that he tried to explain everything in the first place, through The Cloverfield Paradox. “Because multiverse” is an extra unsatisfying explanation, but I think any explanation honestly would’ve been disappointing.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Almost less of a 'franchise' and more like an industry stamp that JJ Abrams puts on all of the science fiction movies he produces through Bad Robot. Everything but the first movie was a spec scrip, though. Meaning it was written independently of that franchise and just given some light re-writes to squeeze it in. Kind of like the middle run of Hellraiser movies like Inferno and Deader. Those were just generic scripts that got branded.

[@dadashlorgar]

This. There is no cloverfield lore

[@RealBradMiller]

Similar to what happened with True Detective: Night Country. Was its own thing, and HBO asked for it to be rewritten under the TD label. They had me all the way up until the end. I'll never understand how so many shows drop the ball at the end.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

@@RealBradMiller "So many shows drop the ball at the end" American Horror Story like every season right there.

[@Cosmicshambler]

​@@RealBradMillertrue detetctive was always ment to be am anthology series tho

[@TrojanLlama]

@@dadashlorgarThere is, just in the ARGs. I think the marketing team cares more about the lore than JJ Abrams

[@ccole99]

I am old. I remember being so excited to run home after seeing Transformers to find out what that date meant and finding the website and doing the ARG and all that fun stuff I’ve done it for all the Cloverfield movies.

[@RealBradMiller]

You're old??!?! I used to walk a mile uphill to school, both ways! Had to cross the hypodermic needle fields and swim the river of denatured alcohol just to get to the playground, which was a construction site(now known as The Pyramids at Giza). 😂😂😂

[@ccole99]

@@RealBradMiller I’m old just not that old!!! Not my fault you missed the fun of being in the theater to watch that first trailer running home to figure out what it was all about playing the ARG just having a good time with something that was new at the time you young whippersnappers know nothing about that nowadays!!!

[@Nico_Sno]

I like to think that Sea Bed’s Nectar isn’t native to earth, but rather is something that Clovers secrete. Makes more sense to me that that’s why clover was found in the same area, rather than clover just conveniently landing right on top of a huge deposit of the stuff.

[@polygonne]

Why are there so little views for this INSANE quality. Keep up the work!

[@MyzoryMaiq]

I blame you, you were supposed to on top of marketing man! You dropped the ball wtf!?

[@DeeganJango]

This is incredibly well done! I believe that the interconnected Easter eggs are mostly an afterthought to three completely separate films that were written as stand alone stories never meant to be a part of a larger universe. Abrams company optioned the scripts, filmed the movies and then afterwards added some very loose connections. These were never written as a larger shared universe.

[@Rick79LUFC]

The debris fall to earth in to sea was a piece of the space station that was destroyed as pieces of it were sent across the Multiverse shortly after the Cloverfield monster appeared.

[@stormdweller6105]

Great video man, keep up the quality. I especially love listening to videos about movies when at work and this is a great piece to listen to. You’re doing great

[@andrewsammons9643]

JJs hair looks like it would make a sound like mashing up a bag of lucky charms when you pet it

[@wade_says]

Excellent work my friend. I saw it in theaters in my senior year of high school and been obsessed ever since.

[@Kehwanna]

Same. I saw it in theaters having no idea what the film was about, didn't see the trailer either. I went with my brother that just mentioned it was a monster movie, but I didn't know that meant a big monster, so I was pumped the moment the action happend. Watching and hearing it on the big screen was awesome. Not knowing about the ARG stuff, I was satisfied with the premise of it just being a random monster with no explanation for the sake of a monster movie.

[@cooldudeninja0219]

Oh yeah the Cloverfield ARG was a pretty interesting thing, honestly this is where most ARG's have their roots, in movies but I can be wrong and the idea could go MUCH further back.

[@BlueJaguarRanger]

I think most scholars conclude that while Blair Witch has a few elements that set the stage for ARGs, Cloverfield is the one that set the pattern.

[@cooldudeninja0219]

@@BlueJaguarRanger Yeah I believe that is correct on Cloverfield setting down the ground work or gave some sort of an idea for it while Blair Witch project was the one to popularize the idea of the ARG. To be honest ARGs have become a thing of their own and do so many interesting things to tell a story.

[@RealBradMiller]

They are modern, but you would be surprised to know they have been around since around the 1900's. Yeah, blew my mind too.

[@ryanrasmusson3497]

i always thought sea bed necture was harvested from clover and thats what woke her up

[@avostorm8111]

Yes.

[@Kehwanna]

She's an alien that went to Earth to enjoy the thousand years worth of juicy goodness from her planet without anyone trying to steal it, but then came the humans stealing from her secret stash, so she came out to smash. That's what the monster said in an interview with 60 Minutes, anyhow.

[@NeonPlanes]

Hey, who knows? Maybe the Cloverfield Paradox, they caused the event in Lost.

[@bryanoquinn5139]

I've always loved Lost and after Cloverfield paradox came out I started thinking that the show and movies were connected somehow. Especially how they have to control a reactor/collider on the island and every time it goes off something bad/wierd/strange happens after. I didn't realize that the Drama initiative logo was in any earlier Cloverfield movies besides Paradox, unless I misunderstood that part in this video. I really enjoy how JJ Abrams connects all his works

[@Inquisiteur007]

Awesome video man!

[@newkoviak]

I live near a clovercraft court that’s next to this power station and any vegetation is kudzu… building engulfing vines that grow super fast…. One time in that area I was knee deep in kudzo in the middle of the night… and it sounded like someone was belly crawling underneath the kudzo right behind me.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Scarie!!

[@Fenris1349]

The Cloverfield Paradox is that JJ keeps making mystery box nothing burgers and yet, disappointed, we still eat it up.

[@davidblank420]

You can grab three random DVDs, tape them together and call it a trilogy. Thats the Cloverfield franchise.

[@sensaiuriah5440]

Lmao imagine Toy story 2, Rush hour , American Pie 😂

[@brandon25060]

Was not a boring part in this video at all. . . Great work and glad i ran into your channel. . .🎉💯

[@marineprincess169]

Bravo!!! Loved this explanation of the timeline/ connections. Well done thank you for creating this.

[@JaxXxonSly]

This was super interesting! I never got into Cloverfield because motion sickness prevented me from actually "Watching" the first movie, so this was great because I was always interested in it!

[@deanrane1961]

Big Thanx for this & all the research, it was excellent!

[@hairrysahn]

Gotta love when youtube reccomends a new channel and it's actually great, keep up the great work dude!

[@MercuryKnight5]

"What is it, arm?" One of my all-time favorite lines.

[@AccordingtoJexi]

In older style video cameras you sometimes had ro set the date. If you didn't set it or set it wrong the dates may be wronf but it would keep time. So the handheld camera being a month apart is more important than the date. We are so used to our electronics keeping time we forget that years ago it was a VERY big deal to remind peoole to change all their clocks for day light savings time. So maybe they never set the date on the camera

[@armayafox2254]

This is what I'd like to believe.

[@beetle1516]

thank you for this!! i just watched cloverfield for the first time and rewatched 10 cloverfield lane, and I was super hungry for more content. this was super informative and entertaining :)

[@KeithJBrett]

7:41 Futura Bold is the name of the font that Bold Futura is written in.

[@crazybanana2228]

When will the actual sequel come out!!!!! I heard that they were done filming.

[@strangertimes5555]

I hope soon… I loved the first movie

[@XDHelloViidaXD]

33:36 CLIFFORD!!! 🤗🤗🥰

[@qwertyuijamesop]

love the breakdown and dedication. keep it up and will wait for similar videos but for other IPs.

[@mustsnip537]

At this point id want someone to write a book connecting everything together.

[@Migelsankhezzzzz]

Excellent content, great job my dude

[@Luchablay]

Great vid. As someone who was trying to bf to figure this out in 2008, it is awesome to see it still alive and well. It’s still alive indeed.

[@marcusmiller5443]

"Is Clifford the Big Red Dog a kaiju?" This question got you a new sub! 🥰👍

[@Dr.Ricebowl76]

It's criminal that this guy has so little views! I'm glad I didn't look this over

[@marcusmiller5443]

I've found all the movies intriguing, albeit found no real connection. This video wraps that issue up neatly. Good show!❤

[@sample.text.]

Well done on this video Blue.

[@peeko_luxx2873]

I think some of the best stories and mediums of art, is in the story telling of the mystery box. Being dropped off in a plot that feels it’s been taking place and will continue to do so even when the credits roll. The mystery of what took place prior to a plot all the while leaving you wanting to see what would happen in the next chapter.

[@JessYapping]

I’ve always said the clover field franchise is amazing story wise it’s a cool idea but it’s JJs films😂He’s a horrible writer but he has awesome ideas just like lost cool concept trash execution. If I was rich I would want to just buy a idea from him and just tell him to go away all I want is the idea we’ll figure the rest out😂🤣

[@krillin7653]

JJ Abrams didn’t write any of the movies. He bought 3 different screenplays from 3 different independent writers. None of the screenplays had anything to do with each other. JJ Abrams is one of the biggest frauds in the industry.

[@JessYapping]

@@krillin7653 oh wow makes it worse🤣Yeah idk I’ve never liked him

[@krillin7653]

@@JessYapping yea you referenced “Lost” in your comment and that’s a perfect example. JJ is good at producing but if he has too much control over a project his work quickly turns into smoke and mirrors.

[@RealBradMiller]

​@@krillin7653well, I don't think anyone thought Lost was going to work for more than a few episodes. 😂

[@krillin7653]

@@RealBradMiller that’s just factually wrong. Lost was extremely popular for the first few seasons and is regarded as one of the greatest tv series of its time. The show only became bad its last season.

[@benphish]

Underwater felt more like a Cloverfield sequel than any of the actual sequels

[@punk_rock_music_teacher]

My friend was a film major in college when the first film was released. Finding all the ARG almost him nuts 😮

[@VDiddy5000]

Honestly, the fact that Lane and Paradox got some gentle rewrites to fit into a similar box made for the first Cloverfield sorta kills any shared lore between them. At best, you can say they’re all parallel stories in different universes, sorta like how Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episodes are usually self-contained, but set within an overarching “universe.” Thusly, the Cloverfield movies are self-contained, only connected by references and nods. Also, talking about the whole “fandom might not be accurate” bit drudged up a core memory; I was sucked into the ARG as a young adult, with Cloverfield coming out a couple months before my 20th birthday, and I absolutely remember the whole “Ethan Haas Was Right” gamejacking. Good times lmao

[@Masochistickoala]

mini rant about how much ive grown to hate JJ abrams by exploring this franchise. The 1st movie is awesome except the dates are wrong in it when compared to the arg which is fine that isn't too big of a plot hole and can easily be explained away by myspace not being able to backdate stuff. Everything fits and there's cool lore with the deep sea nectar actually being what the parasites use as venom when they bite people which causes them to pop, along with themes of corporate greed and environmental activism. So that ties into Jamie who is slumped over and presumably dies in the movie after ingesting all the nectar that teddy told her not to eat but she did anyways out of spite. Which makes a lot of the cloverfield movie even better as there was no hope in saving Jamie the whole time. My Problem is with the sequels that shouldn't be sequels. The creatures in 10 cloverfield land are semi-reminiscent of Clover and that's where the connections stop. There's no reason for it to be in the universe of cloverfield, it's dumb and it wasn't even supposed to be connected just like with the cloverfield paradox. Why do these all need to be connected, I get we're only on the 3rd movie in the universe but every subsequent movie after the 1st feels like jj making the 1st one worse. Making a clover-verse is extremely hamfisted. I hope the 4th one being a direct sequel to the 1st is true and that it completely ignores 10 cloverfield lane and the cloverfield paradox. It just feels JJ hates the franchise and wants it to fail or my personal theory is he is smoking some CRAZY strain of weed when he makes decisions for this universe.

[@Rick79LUFC]

Slusho appears in all 3 films is primarily to show TC existed in all 3 universe linking all 3 together.

[@zerotsang4604]

Lol I dont think the creator even know their story timeliness is off. We need a QnA with the creator and a red shirt guy.

[@pariahred13]

This channel kicks ass

[@GreenG0blin]

The cult from the cloverfield manga is canon to the movie because the hasbro produced toy that came out with the movie has a backdrop piece of destroyed buildings and one of the windows u can see him lurking

[@korybrager3628]

I just thought of something. Baby Clover looking for it's mom, it's mom in the Cloverfield paradox was transfered to a different reality. So baby clover did not know where mommy wad

[@marcusmiller5443]

Alternate sky fall theory: That the hatched baby, looking for its mommy, or the mommy looking for its baby.

[@JustinStarrPhotography]

Very nice video. FWIW, I always took the falling “satellite” at the end of the Cloverfield to be the space capsule used to escape the space station in Paradox. Also the size of the monster in Cloverfield seemed inconsistent across different shots, indicating to me that BOTH the mother and baby were rampaging through the city.

[@Masochistickoala]

that'd be cool but i think it's just cgi jank. On the bluray version there's a special feature where you can see where the monster is relative to the characters throughout all of the movie, it's a very cool feature.

[@d.j.martin5291]

I give this guy a lot of credit going through all of that. It seems very convoluted.

[@davidhuster2700]

It seems convoluted because these scripts were written separately and the studio made them be cloverfield movies. All the "sequels" weren't supposed to be. That's why you can watch the sequels so independently. That's been covered by tons of film critics and admitted by the crews of the movies. 10 Cloverfield lane was meant to be a separate movie, and aside from the name has literally nothing to do with cloverfield

[@avostorm8111]

To be fair, this video has been done years ago by another creator.

[@volkor3164]

This is very good content, criminally underrated channel. One thing id like to point out tho, personally I think the blue line around the video is very annoying to the eye. Maybe consider making it a darker blue. Other than that keep up the good work

[@davissmock565]

Good video bro

[@mcaelm]

Have you thought of making a video about This House Has People In It? Its a really wacky and deep ARG.

[@derrek-lee]

What about the box that Stambler hides somewhere with the survival kit? I always thought that was one of the coolest parts of the ARG, and it seems to be one of the biggest ties between Lane and Paradox

[@GottyJ]

Side note. Lieutenant uhura get a alcoholic drink with Slusho-mix in the first Abrams star Trek film

[@Djetgamesnmoives]

Wow this man's content is really good

[@absoLukeCollecting]

This is a satisfying enough explanation

[@firebornliger]

JJ never has a plan. So its definitely not planned out. But, maybe since its going from anthology series to direct sequels there will be someone planning it out. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

[@J0Nramirez]

Great job with this! You are very well spoken and presented it all nicely! Thanks for the effort. Also, I'm definitely curious what happens next for the franchise because, if Paradox is the "main" universe, then it's quite peculiar how we are getting a sequel to the original film (even though I already know that it is because of popularity/familiarity aka easier to sell).

[@Ophanim_Cherub1.4]

This is the best summary 😊

[@basedsketch4133]

The fan content even if false is kinda cool as it's like a Pot luck dinner fandom with everyone contributing to the menu I feel even if false it keeps a fandom alive now if they could just state it as fan fiction than canon im all in on it tbh.

[@LukeDodge916]

I remember seeing the Cloverfield trailer before Transformers, and damnit if i didnt think about that trailer with only the date for the entire movie... I was hooked onto Cloverfield from that moment on and did all the ARG stuff i could find.

[@SoSoDEVIL]

Can't recommend enough a comedy podcast called "Cloverfeels" where they go over alot of this stuff

[@geovanyhernandez8640]

There’s an Anne Hathaway movie about her being able to control a huge monster, I think the name is Colossal. I always thought that was also part of the Cloverfield universe.

[@ThyHuntsman]

From your findings wouldn’t the most possible answer to who the whistleblower would be, be Randy from the tape where teddy tells his gf to listen to Randy he’ll know what to do while talking about the Japanese company possibly “hunting” him

[@BigBlueBackpack]

I considered that, but it didn’t quite fit. The whistleblower is someone working undercover for Tagruato. Randy is a public facing member of TIDO Wave, with his name on the website. If Randy was the whistleblower, it would be pretty easy for Tagruato to find him out. The idea isn’t impossible, but it felt silly to say Randy was the whistleblower just because he’s the only named character anywhere near that part of the story.

[@jackross7_11]

I had no clue any of the extra stuff existed.

[@MillsCherry-fb9tv]

He was so deep into it I got lost no Diddy

[@riptarozone]

Thank you so much for this. I remember being a kid when the first movie came out with dial-up internet, it was impossible for me to keep track of the ARG. This sort of worldbuilding for a franchise is far more appealing to me than a bunch of installments. It's like being a movie archaeologist.

[@ryanrasmusson3497]

im excited were getting an official sequel to the first one

[@mothman4676]

The monster couldn’t have attacked in January…leaves on the trees

[@shp3723]

Monster ? Satellite ? Dammm, I always thought that it was the survivors from the Station or something; as the Cloverfield_Paradox's last scene resembles pretty much what we saw falling into the ocean in Cloverfield_2008; The "Mother" looking for her "baby" also would add up to that (in the last seconds of the last scene). But yeah... Guess I was wrong. Thanks for the video !

[@extremosaur]

*opens door* why are you shouting in my hotel?

[@crazyperson1950]

If anyone knows who Steve Zaragoza and Mike on a lil show called “Cloverfeels” best early 2010 podcast you can barley find nowadays

[@badgerman6666]

The dharma image is not actually present on the DVD, someone put up a video on KZbin years ago and threw it In there for fun and even mentions it in the video, sadly… people use this footage and in situations like this, turn up in videos saying it’s there… when it simply isn’t.

[@BigBlueBackpack]

Hm. I can’t speak for the DVD, but the footage I used was from the blu-ray.

[@MoldyBones27]

7:26 cus he knocked it off from Big Kahuna Burger..

[@TrojanLlama]

I can’t wait for the next Cloverfield movie, which will be a direct sequel to Cloverfield 2008. I’m excited to see another ARG happen before my very eyes

[@ShinySephiroth1]

20:39 Oh! So that was a Mark Stambler interview from a different timeline!? How did it cross over before the ship did what it did, though?

[@dedscene2521]

A.R.G. means Augmented Reality Game not Alternate but this is a great video just wanted to pass along the info

[@BryanTheDM]

It absolutely does not. ARGs and Augmented Reality are two completely different things and are not at all related. This has been one of the most commonly repeated misconceptions since ARGs first became a notable and documented medium. They have absolutely nothing to do with one another beyond containing the word "reality" and beginning with the letter "a". That's literally all.

[@dedscene2521]

@BryanTheDM ok buddy, calm down. 👍 the game is playing out like it is happening within our reality, but there are things that only happen within the game, not our reality, therefore augmenting our reality. For a visual version of an ARG, there are things like Pokémon Go. Both types of games use our real world as the setting in our reality but then add things to it, changing or augmenting it.

[@GaaraFPS]

All I’m gonna say is they really whiffed by not making overlord a cloverfield movie, they already referenced it in paradox and they just just wrote it into the universe just to remove it, lost faith at that point thinking they were done with the franchise 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Mike-n6u9t]

This was cool video

[@stapuft]

Why not make the numbering system for the universes is confusing is the movie's timelines? A,1,chi(X), delta(∆),ichi(-)

[@garrettconliffe4699]

Came here from his tik tok video. I’ve always loved cloverfield but never understood the full story. Thank you for your dedication to this franchise.

[@anuvisraa5786]

i tink that tagurato colud be the same organisation in all the paralel dimencions

[@Captain.AmericaV1]

*Theres an upcoming film which is a direct sequel to the first.*

[@get-in-2-get-out774]

Cant wait to know what JJ Adrams is cooking for the 2008 sequel Amazing video, great work.

[@roachofdoom1234]

I think it’d be a good idea to try to establish that the monsters and the aliens are from the same universe and maybe even directly related, even though they were scatted to time and dimensions

[@pearlkohler5422]

I’m so ready for a more capable writer to run with this franchise and tie up all these loose ends 😭

[@kvmehaus]

Wasn’t the guy in the navy played by this same actor in the Godzilla movies? And they also include multiverses or something or am I trippin

[@basedsketch4133]

I don't know if I'm being odd but Tagruato doesn't sound all that Japanese to me but I'm prob mistaken. Kinda like the Yutani in Weyland-Yutani they sound hyper fictitious I mean I connect named from those in Japanese media such as music, games, anime/manga, politics, modern and feudal warfare I just have never seen in my 40 years a Tagruato or Yutani.

[@OrgBobaFret]

😮Bro who jizzed on the ice machine

[@Nyx_Room]

I'd be that person coming out to say, shaddup. 😂 whe. I hear super loud shit that late.

[@AlwaysStayGeeky]

Whistleblower is randy?

[@permeus2nd]

0:58 dosnt cloverfield fail on no8? I could probably make a case for 9 been a fail too, 6 is open to interpretation aka you say paced out I say drags out. Ied also say that about 80% of the audience have now idea about half of the mysteries/lore of the setting as they don’t have time to search the internet for hidden videos and to ring phone numbers to solve args.

[@thechaz83]

Be easy on Harold. He was married to Roseanne for over 10+ years. That would make anyone crazy

[@Gibbypastrami]

I think Cloverfield Paradox opened up multiple portals One is where the baby alien shot out of and then landed in the ocean on earth in Cloverfield I think at the end of Paradox that’s either the baby alien all grown up and the Cloverfield ship being gone caused a planet of the apes situation where they come back and the alien is fully grown after destroying earth because time passed differently so now it’s bigger Or that’s the aliens mom that came out through that same portal the baby came from and went to earth herself, so they’re seeing mom who is much bigger than the baby Or maybe Paradox opened the portal for the monster and it starts going around hitting Slusho rigs, then the thing that lands in the ocean is aliens there to kill the monster waiting until it hits the right near the city, and either it takes them longer to regroup and we don’t see them attack the monster because the cameraman dies or they intentionally wait so they don’t also have to fight the military, then Lane shows the aftermath of them killing the monster and enslaving humanity Cloverfield Lane is either another universe or it’s just in a different area than Cloverfield 1? So either the aliens pop out of a different portal on the other side of earth from where the alien landed and start invading from the other side and that’s why the aliens are a bigger threat than the monster, or Cloverfield Lane takes place after paradox and Cloverfield 1, we tried beating the monster(s) and failed, so aliens came in and killed them and then enslaved the rest of humanity, maybe the monster(s) left America after destroying New York and got nuked in another country, it’s still fresh news and far away which is why the aliens get to this area first And then I think Overlord if it stayed in the universe would’ve had a post credits scene where a portal opens up and a horde of zombies go through, implying they also go to the earth of Cloverfield 1, and I think it would be cool if they come in after the aliens and take out the aliens, then you have a new Cloverfield zombie movie where groups of humans are fighting zombie Nazis and aliens and maybe a zombie Cloverfield monster pops up at the end of Edit: Also, the reason the baby alien shot into the ocean there is because an “oil rig” hit something, it’s actually an undercover Slusho mine, they get whatever ingredient they need from somewhere deep in the ocean, maybe this is why the alien landed there, whatever they’re mining for Slusho is also a food source for the alien, I don’t think it’s sea weed or whatever, it’s something they need to mine

[@Gibbypastrami]

I wonder if that movie that came out (with Mary Elizabeth Winstead too might I add, maybe she was attached before it became standalone) where a girl could like mentally control a monster ravaging a city (I haven’t seen the movie I think it ended up being metaphorical so I could be so wrong) Maybe that monster was originally Clover and then it became its own thing I say this because of the comic you brought up I had never seen it before What if the girl from Lane came back in a sequel and helped take down the monster while the survivor from Paradox (and any survivors from Overlord if it was apart of the canon) and others come together to defeat the aliens, and the zombies too or save that for another movie lol

[@KertaDrake]

I feel like the only way you'd get answers is if you continued the franchise, but ejected JJ entirely because the man is allergic to continuity and lore. He just makes it all up on the fly even if there's pre-existing lore, even if he was the one who made that lore!

[@alexanderandrew6535]

Probably would've worked better if in first movie the seabed nectar was extracted from the monster itself who was still asleep undersea but they woke it up or the satellite falling wakes it up

[@acidmvnvisuals590]

Probably all happening at the same time