Paramount and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot presented Joe Barton, The Batman,’s feature film to write the screenplay for an untitled sequel to ‘Cloverfield,’ the studio confirmed.
Abrams will co-produce with Bad Robot the head of the film Hannah Minghella.
The 2008 monster film went viral, grossing $ 172 million worldwide, and was the launch pad of a Cloverfield universe that grew into ’10 Cloverfield Lane ‘and’ The Cloverfield Paradox ‘, which premiered on Netflix in 2018. has. career of Matt Reeves, who now plays the film ‘The Batman’.
While the original “Cloverfield” uses the format of the footage that has been popular for years, the new episode will abandon the now outdated style, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“Cloverfield” follows five young New Yorkers who are forced to flee from a giant monster and other creatures while holding a farewell party. The cast included Lizzy Caplan and TJ Miller. The production was kept secret and fueled intense speculation, which successfully led to the relatively low-budget project. Abrams considered it a tribute to classic Godzilla movies.
Barton is the author and creator of the British crime drama ‘Giri / Haji’ in 2019 and recently became a forerunner of HBO Max’s ‘The Batman’ Gotham PD spin-off series after Terence Winter left the show.
The Gotham PD series builds on the investigation into the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City being explored in ‘The Batman’ feature film, which helps WarnerMedia build a Batman universe on multiple platforms.
Barton’s Amazon Studios sci-fi thriller “Invasion” is in post-production, starring Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer.