Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Considering the whopping commercial success of CLOVERFIELD, $25 million
> production has earned over $80 million worldwide, natch it has to be
turned
> into a sequel and preferably, by Hollywood, a franchise trilogy. But
how?
> What story is left? Can it still use the conceit of a single-camera POV?
>
> In reverse order:
> --Yes.
> --We either saw the Creature survive--or it had an heir.
> --CLOVERLAND: Two years after CLOVERFIELD, the country officially breaks
> ground on the NYC memorial, with politicians from across the country
> onscene, months after the city was nuked (with the radiation being key
to
> tracking and destroying any hidden minions). A local re****ter and her
> videographer are watching the event--on tv--and going back to her normal
> fluff pieces--in Miami--when guess who--or what--shows up for pulled
****k
> sandwiches, sun, surf and some spare ... to kill? This time, the
Creature
> has more than minions, but family. Now instead of the chase going on in
a
> city it goes across the country, with mass exodus of people to Mexico
and
> Canada (but not for the free meds and medical mj). Natch, it's not one
long
> continuous shot, but multiple breaks and the re****ter and videographer
> re****t on sightings and fleeings and "action" shots of Creatures and
> Minions. How does it end?
>
> After nine years, things have been tough.on the US--and especially
coastal
> cities, New York, Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco,
> Seattle, etc. leaving Chicago as the most populous city in the country
as
> many fled there for shelter. The Creatures had shown up and devasted the
> coasts, tho seemingly limited to the coastal regions, the spidery
Minions
> have shown up ranging far afield inland, menacing tho not devastating
the
> larger inland cities and towns, but making travel in-country between
major
> towns trickier. Ultimately a detente has been reached with people in
gated
> communities and armed caravans, trains and planes armed with missiles.
>
> --CLOVERWORLD: And then things get bad. Creatures start popping up
inland
> when the horrifying truth is revealed: The Minions were mothers, leaving
> eggs across the country. Now the Creatures and Minions are everywhere.
Using
> state-of-the-art camera technology, a pair of top-classified agents
re****t
> things have gone from horrific to nightmarish: And then Creatures start
> appearing in other continents, South America, Canada, Europe, Asia,
Africa,
> India, Australia, everywhere but the poles. Why? The agents have cracked
the
> case: The Creatures are attracted to radiation generation, initially
> following nuclear sub back to the US. Thus while radiation kills them
and
> they avoid it, they are attracted to the process of *creating*
radiation. Of
> course knowing, to quote GI JOE, is only half the battle. Destroying the
> Creatures who are now so spread out without nuking the planet, is a bit
of a
> mystery.
>
> Altho after years of researching the Creatures, the agents have a plan.
>
>
>
> Or something like that. Ya gotta increase the threat, the danger, while
> providing characters the audience care about:
> --Where in the first movie, you have "average persons" as the stars of
the
> movie dealing with this crisis. Hud was a pivotal character, given the
> relative "shallowness" of his persona, it explains why he would keep
> filming, he's essentially using the camera as a security blanket. It's
also
> a way of distancing the danger from himself.
> --In the second one, having re****ters featured would explain why they
would
> keep recording despite the danger, yet having them be local re****ters
would
> make it easier for the audience to identify with them and the re****ters'
> dreams of going to "big" in the initial setup before revealing the
monsters.
> --The third flick, having government agents be featured would make sense
> given the increased global danger of the threat, plus explains why they
have
> microcameras and have access to get into the action zones that average
> people or even re****ters would lack. Moreover the 3rd flick in the
trilogy
> turns the tables by having the Creatures and Minions be the known
quality
> while the agent humans are the mystery, who are slowly revealed as they
go
> about their Plan to save the planet.
Or, instead of the agents being the unknowns, bring in Mulder, Scully,
and Skinner to investigate the origin of the monsters. Then they
respond to the infestation by bringing in the aliens to clear them out
to make space for them to colonize Earth.
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