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J.J. Abrams Has Monstrous Plans For Third ‘Cloverfield’
I still can’t believe we’re getting some sort of incarnation of a Cloverfield sequel on March 11th.
Coming out of the blue, J.J. Abrams said nothing more than that 10 Cloverfield Lane, starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr., is a “blood relative” of the 2010 creature feature that grossed more than $170 million worldwide on a mere $25 million budget (plus marketing).
And while the producer is keeping tight-lipped, he is teasing that there are monstrous plans for a third film that could tie it all together.
“I think that would be presumptuous, because we’re talking about this movie and comparing it to Cloverfield,” Abrams said to EW when asked if it were more like a new “Twilight Zone” episode than having authentic connective tissue. “But I would be lying if I didn’t say there was something else that, if we’re lucky enough to do it, could be really cool that connects some stories.”
Abrams’ only clue is that there is a “larger conceit” at play here. “This is just this movie, and it’s only two films that we’re talking about right now,” Abrams said. “There is something else that we’d like to do, and hopefully we’ll get a shot.”
After the hype started, some reddit users claimed that the Cloverfield connect was pigeon-holed in at the final hour. While this may be true, this doesn’t devalue 10 Cloverfield Lane in an real way. In fact, now I’m even more intrigued to see how J.J. Abrams found a way to fit this into the same universe that could bridge a an even larger third film.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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