{"id":102694,"date":"2018-04-26T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T08:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=102694"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T08:42:44","slug":"overlord-isnt-a-cloverfield-movie-according-to-jj-abrams-but-a-sequel-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/overlord-isnt-a-cloverfield-movie-according-to-jj-abrams-but-a-sequel-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlord isn’t a Cloverfield movie according to JJ Abrams but a sequel is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been operating under the assumption that Bad Robot’s WWII-set sci-fi\/horror movie Overlord<\/em><\/strong> was a Cloverfield<\/em><\/strong> movie for ages now, essentially because it’s Bad Robot and it’s sci-fi, and if anything screams “Cloverfield” it’s that.<\/p>\n

However, JJ Abrams has stated that the film, directed by Julius Avery and starring Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Jacob Anderson, and Pilou Asbaek, is not in the Cloverfield<\/em><\/strong> universe, per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bad Robot head honcho made the statement in a pre-taped chat at CinemaCon, where he described the film as “bat shit crazy.” It’s also the first R-rated Bad Robot movie, and descriptions of the footage shown at the event sound pretty damn gory. Overlord<\/em><\/strong> is “about World War II soldiers who find out the Nazis are using supernatural forces and engaging in gruesome experiments.”<\/p>\n

He also noted that a proper Cloverfield<\/em><\/strong> follow-up was on the way, saying “we\u2019re actually developing a true, dedicated\u00a0Cloverfield<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0sequel.” This presumably means something that isn’t retrofitted, like the critically-mauled The Cloverfield Paradox<\/em><\/strong>, which will forever be remembered for suddenly being dropped on Netflix with no warning and Chris O’Dowd having a conversation with a severed arm.<\/p>\n

Overlord is released on 25 October. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JJ Abrams says a Cloverfield sequel is in development but Overlord isn’t it…but he would say that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":102696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[1247,930],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/JJ-Abrams.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}