Other Movies In Development

With Godzilla: King Of The Monsters only a few months away and Godzilla vs. Kong in production, there is not a whole lot of news. However, there are other movies that are in development that I have not reported. Movies that we talked about briefly and others nobody ever knew about. So what monster movies should we expect? The answer is not a whole lot.

CLOVERFIELD 2: THE SEQUEL

Cloverfield is one of the many movies that fans have been waiting for a sequel to ever since 2008. 10 Cloverfield Lane set up the series to be like the Twilight Zone or a series of anthology films that would setup a cinematic universe called the Cloververse. Despite being a really decent movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane was just not what people expected and asked for. They wanted answers as to where the monster in the first movie came from. When word got out that the working title, God Particle, was going to be the next movie in the series there was next to no news shortly after and there was a long wait until The Cloverfield Paradox was revealed during the Super Bowl last year. The TV spot showed promise that it would answer the questions that fans have been asking for. The result was more than disappointment as it left many viewers with more questions than answers. Months after the movie's release, J. J. Abrams teased the idea of a "true sequel" to Cloverfield and now there has been no word on its production since then. While I would like to see an actual sequel to Cloverfield I am not really counting on it becoming a reality. In recent news, Abrams is signed on to film Star Wars IX and his production studio, Bad Robot, is about to part ways with Paramount. Paramount was disappointed that Overlord and The Cloverfield Paradox under performed and despite extending their agreement to make a movie for Paramount, Abrams decided to make his second Star Wars film instead. It is reported that Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., and Apple are competing to win him and his studio over. So if a new Cloverfield movie is in production right now it would have to come out some time this year. Otherwise, Paramount will have to either look for someone else to continue making the films or scrap the Cloverfield series altogether. There was a script that was found for a movie called Dark on a website called The Black List. It's a website where screen-writers can show off their unproduced screenplays. The script's story is about this crew on an oil rig encountering a creature that awakens from constant drilling. This sounds like a movie that could fit in with this series, but the monster in the script is described nothing like the monster in the first movie. The financier is Paramount Pictures, but the production company is Platinum Dunes. So it makes me wonder if Paramount is looking for a monster movie to replace Cloverfield or if they are giving Cloverfield to someone else. Or maybe there won't be another movie at all. Only time will tell if it is happening or not. If you would like to read the script for Dark, then scroll down to the bottom and click on the link.

MONSTER HUNTER

A United Nations military team are sent through a portal to another dimension where humans must fight off giant monsters to survive. The two groups must work together to prevent any of the monsters from entering the portal to prevent an invasion on Earth.

This movie is based off the video game of the same name. It is being directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and stars his wife/actress Milla Jovovich. The husband and wife duo have been making movies together ever since Resident Evil, which is another video game movie. Most of what this director makes are films based on video games. He directed Mortal Kombat, the Resident Evil series, Alien vs Predator, Pompeii (this is not a video game movie) and was the producer for DOA: Dead or Alive. However, his movies were not well received and tend to flop. Upon hearing the news that he will be making Monster Hunter and seeing set photos for this movie there was a lot of backlash from fans of the game series. The world the game sets in is more of a fantasy world and the main character of the games depends on the class that you choose. Your weapons are usually a sword or a giant hammer and you are hunting these monsters so you can upgrade your weapons and armor so you can fight bigger and tougher monsters. This is my opinion and I could be wrong, but I find that there is not much of a story to work with in these games. So coming