Accordingto Variety, Reeves is in talks with Paramount to direct the sequel, and this time his paycut will surely be a lot meatier considering two weeks before the film opened no one had a clue who he was.
Drop or no second week drop, “Cloverfield’s” $46 million opening week was a record for a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and Paramount made a shit-ton of money off the modestly budgeted horror. Sequel talk has been bandied about for weeks now.
Reeves has said that he and producer JJ Abrams had been kicking ideas around for a sequel and suggested part deux could take place on the same night of the event following a different group of similarly obnoxious twenty-somethings from the Upper East Side squatting in the East Village, and dropped hints about an open-ended moment that happened at the end of the film that was planted their specifically in case they wanted to run with it.
“Did you see the thing in the last shot?” Reeves told ComingSoon. “In the final shot there’s a little something, and I don’t wanna say what it is. The final shot before the titles. The stuff at Coney Island, there’s a little something there and I don’t want to give it away ’cause the fun is sort of to find it, but I will say this: there’s a funny thing, you look at the shot and until you see it you don’t see it and you really don’t see it and obviously you don’t ’cause none of you have seen it, but once you see it you’ll never stop seeing it.”
Of course those nerds spotted it instantly.
CS: It’s the thing dropping in the water, right?
Reeves: Oh, you saw it.
While we’re usually annoyed with the relentlessly cynical The Hater column in the Onion (as some probably get annoyed with our relentless cheeky pessimism), their “Things You Shouldn’t Think About During Cloverfield,” piece (“Basic Logic and The Will To Survive” being one of our favorites) was pretty damn funny and on-the-mark (there’s actually a new Hater column on Blair Witch Eats Manhattan (aka Cloverfield) again onstands, but is not up online yet).