J.J. Abrams recently said that at one point during The Cloverfield Paradox‘s development process, the idea was thrown around to bring Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s 10 Cloverfield Lane character, Michelle, into the film. As for how that would’ve worked out or made sense, your guess is as good as ours, but it of course never happened.
Now, speaking with Empire, Abrams has revealed another Cloverfield Paradox–10 Cloverfield Lane connection he wanted to bring into the new film, via a fun Easter egg.
“During the spacewalk sequence and all this debris is flying around, there was a truck that was going around,” Abrams explained. “And it was from 10 Cloverfield Lane, it was [Howard] Stambler’s truck. But it was one of those things that once again, some people called it out as being too crazy; I loved it, because I thought it was just so bonkers, but some people felt it was too distracting.”
“I thought it was amazing,” Abrams added.
Howard’s truck did not make it into The Cloverfield Paradox, but you might have noticed that Donal Logue’s character was named Mark Stambler, a nod to Howard!