While we were all distracted by talk around the upcoming third Cloverfield film, the ever-secretive J.J. Abrams and co have been busy — the fourth film in the franchise is well underway, and apparently it’s already done filming. With Cloverfield 3, aka God Particle, blasting off for a space station setting, Cloverfield 4 is doing something totally different — it’s set in World War II.
The project has shot under the name Overlord with little-known director Julius Avery at the helm, and Everybody Wants Some!! and Black Mirror star Wyatt Russell leading the cast. The film will follow a group of American paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines in the run-up to D-Day, who discover a supernatural secret in a Nazi-occupied village.
According to /Film, sources have confirmed that the film is indeed the fourth Cloverfield, and that production is already complete. It’s thought that the film could arrive in October this year.
News of the next Cloverfield comes at an interesting time — last week saw reports that God Particle might not get a cinema release outside of the US. It’s thought that Paramount could sell the international rights to Netflix, a path the studio has already taken for Alex Garland’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Annihilation. If the Netflix deal does go ahead, there’s a chance that UK audiences may also end up streaming Overlord rather than seeing it in the cinema.
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