Comments on: J.J. Abrams Denies ‘Overlord’ Is A ‘Cloverfield’ Spin-Off But Confirms Plans For A “True” Sequel https://staging2.theplaylist.net/j-j-abrams-cloverfield-2-20180426/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: LA2000 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/j-j-abrams-cloverfield-2-20180426/#comment-159840 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:50:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=384119#comment-159840 For lack of a better plan, Bad Robot has developed the “Cloverfield” brand as a cinema anthology series with only the most tenuous of links connecting the chapters. Narratively speaking, producers seem to be circling the airport, waiting for a better, more coherent idea to occur to them and are, meanwhile, repurposing script development cast offs as “chapters” to keep the brand from completely dying.

This is not a plan for success.

But if that is how Bad Robot plans to proceed, they would be much wiser to transition the property into a premium cable or streaming anthology series (sort of a “Twilight Zone” meets “Lost”) that unravels the “Cloverfield” mystery one (seemingly) unrelated chapter at a time until the different threads begin to connect.

No one has the patience to wait 2 or more years between theatrical, stall tactic “chapters” that only inch the story forward, especially if the brand is going to be so hit-or-miss.

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