Is ‘Cloverfield Station’ The Title Of The Next ‘Cloverfield’ Movie?
The nextCloverfieldsequel has kicked off a cryptic viral marketing campaign, which includes at least two websites that fans can scavenge for clues. A release date for the film has also been confirmed for the spring, after being pushed back from February. But the one thing the thirdCloverfieldfilm is missing is a title.
TheCloverfieldmovies have always been veiled in secrecy, but the mystery of the third untitledCloverfieldhas been the most infuriating, if only because its tentative title,God Particle, was already pretty darn good. But thanks to some eagle-eyed Reddit sleuths, we may have just found out the officialCloverfieldsequel title.
ARedditthread posits the potential title of the thirdCloverfieldmovie to beCloverfield Station. This rumor came about after a Redditor discovered that an FX lighting artist named Rui (Ray) Xu onLinkedinhad listed “Cloverfield Station” among his credits. Now, this could all be chocked up to one of the many unsubstantiated rumors flying around Reddit, but since then,aFacebookandInstagramaccount have been discovered for the title, as well as domains forCloverfieldStation.comandCloverfieldStationmovie.com. Naturally, take all of this with a grain of salt, as this could be the work of mischievous internet users who claimed the domains after the rumor spread.
The officialviral marketingfor the thirdCloverfieldmovie has revealed no hint of its actual title, only teasing information on a “revolutionary new energy technology” from Tagruato, the company that was likely responsible for awakening the huge monster that attacked New York in the firstCloverfield.
This would be an unusual way for aCloverfieldtitle to be revealed, but I wouldn’t put it past the franchise’s marketing department to test new ways to engage fans.10 Cloverfield Lane’s title was revealed merely two months before the movie’s release, in a trailer in front of13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Meanwhile, the originalCloverfieldwas actually a working title for the 2008 found-footage film, which stuck after the hype for the teaser trailer grew monumentally.
If official,Cloverfield Stationwould be an accurate, if on-the-nose title for a film about astronauts aboard a space station who, after an accident with a particle accelerator, discover that Earth has vanished. The plot thickens as the astronauts discover traces of another space station nearby. I will briefly mourn the loss ofGod Particleas a title, which is a term for the real Higgs boson — a theoretical particle that imbues all other particles in the universe with mass. Here’sBill Nye explaining it, just for clarity. The god particle is theorized to have a part in the eventual destruction of the universe, which is a subject ripe for movie-making. I’m sure the movie’s subject won’t be any different with a title change, butGod Particleis so tantalizing a title that it feels like it would be a missed opportunity to call it something else.
The untitledCloverfieldsequel is directed byJulius Onahbased on a script byOren UzielandDoug Jung. It starsDaniel Brühl,Elizabeth Debicki,Aksel Hennie,Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Chris O’Dowd,John Ortiz,David OyelowoandZhang Ziyi, and is due outApril 20, 2018.
