Movies
Updated: Matt Reeves Talks ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel
Update: Read what Matt Reeves had to say below! We’ll have some exact quotes for you later this evening, but some quick non-news from the SXSW Film Festival as David Harley texted in informing me that Matt Reeves (Let Me In) and the rest of the Cloverfield have been too busy on their own projects to get the sequel off the ground. Speculation from all camps imply that it’ll happen one of these days, just not anytime soon. Although, I will never forget how quickly the first film ramped up and hit theaters. In Cloverfield five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
When asked if he could spill any new info on Cloverfield 2 Matt Reeves didn’t have much to say.
“I really can’t. I wish I could but the thing about it is that all three of us are doing different things right now,” a disappointed Reeves tells Bloody Disgusting. “Drew Goddard just made a movie that’s supposed to be fantastic. I know a friend of mine just saw it and said it was great. He made it with Joss Whedon and Richard Jenkins, who is also in our film, is in it and he talked to me about how much he loved making it. Drew actually wrote it with Joss but it’s Drew’s directorial debut. It’s this movie called Cabin In The Woods and it’s supposed to be fantastic. They liked it so much that they’re converting it to 3-D. So, Drew is busy with that. J.J. is working on a movie and producing Mission Impossible IV and just directed a pilot. And I’m obviously very immersed in the editing on this so it’s hard for us to focus on that right now. But the thing with J.J. is that while he’s laser focused on one thing, he can also do a million other little things at the same time. So things are percolating. We’re constantly like, “Oh, what if we did this? What if we did that?” So there’s stuff going on, just nothing substantial right now. We’re just waiting for things to line up for all three of us. I think it’ll just percolate for a while until it comes to the surface. So, unfortunately, there’s not much to tell at this point, it’s just that we want to do it.“
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
You must be logged in to post a comment.