FAQ

After a car accident, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) finds herself locked in an underground shelter with Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) and doomsday prepper Howard (John Goodman), who tells them there's something apocalyptic happening outside.

JJ Abrams, who produced this film, has described this film as not a direct sequel to Cloverfield, but as a "blood relative" to the original movie. 10 Cloverfield Lane appears to be related to Cloverfield in name only, perhaps as an homage or as part of an anthology film series. No creatures, either "Clover" or its parasites, from that movie, appear in this film, nor are the events of Cloverfield referenced. It's also not a prequel to the original movie, as Michelle's iPhone comes from after 2008, and Emmett's bus ticket has a date from after 2008. The only name reference to Cloverfield comes from the title, which the end of the movie reveals is Howard's address. However, there are connections via the film's viral marketing. Howard appears as an employee of the month on the Tagruato "website", which is the parent company of Bold Futura, who owned the satellite that crashed into the sea and woke the Cloverfield monster up (the satellite can be seen crashing in the distance in the final scene in Cloverfield). In this movie, when Michelle enters the ventilation room, she finds an envelope from Bold Futura. Emmett also mentions that Howard worked for some big company that worked on "satellite stuff". It could be said that the Cloverfield incident was a distraction or test of Earth's defenses.

No. J.J. Abrams once said, "if we used the same style again it may lose its gimmick; but we are not ruling out the fact that we may do it again." This meant that Cloverfield 2 might be filmed like a regular Hollywood movie to be able to tell a deeper story. The released movie confirms that the entire film is shot in traditional multi-camera style.