Matt Reeves discusses ‘Cloverfield” Easter eggs and teases the future for ‘The Batman.

Matt Reeves and Lizzy Caplan on the set of Cloverfield, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Matt Reeves, Lizzy Caplan and the Set of CloverfieldThis month,, which is celebrating its 15th year anniversary. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Matt Reeves founded the website 15 years ago. Cloverfield He brought the 2008 found footage movie about a monster to the big screen, creating a new universe. Reeves ensured that there would be many cinematic universes after the film’s global $175 million gross. Planet of the Apes-verse, and, more recently: the Bat-verse branch DC Extended Universe. The DC Extended Universe is currently under extensive renovation by the new DC Studios head James Gunn and Peter Safran, who are trying to reinvent the status-quo for the company’s greatest heroes. starting with an all-new Superman.

Yahoo Entertainment: Talking to you before Cloverfield‘s 15th anniversary on Jan. 18 — the day after an extras-laden 4K Steelbook edition goes on sale — Reeves confirms that he’s already had conversations with Gunn and Safran about the future of The Batman, his 2022 franchise-relaunching blockbuster that introduced Robert Pattinson as the younger version of Gotham City’s Dark Knight.

Reeves says, “We’ve spoken a few times.” “I am supposed to get together this month with him and Peter. They’ve been working feverishly on what they’re doing, and I’ve been working hard with my partners on what we’re doing — all our shows and stuff. We’re going to have a sit down where we discuss everything and the arcs of both these things. It’s exciting to hear what they are doing.

Robert Pattinson and Reeves on the set of The Batman. (Photo: Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection)`

Robert Pattinson & Reeves discuss the set The Batman. (Photo: Jonathan Olley/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection)`

So far, Reeves’s announced plans include a second movie for Pattinson’s Caped Crusader — possibly starring Barry Keoghan as his clown-ish nemesis, the Joker — and an HBO Max series revolving around Colin Farrell’s Gotham crime boss Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin. Those projects have no connection to the rest of the DCEU slate, and part of his impending conversation with Gunn and Safran will involve how they’ll run parallel to each other — at least for now. He says that they have a big plan and that he has a big Bat-verse plan. “It’s all about us getting to know each others. It’s going be great fun.”

The fun of potentially connecting universes is what the Bat-verse can acknowledge. Cloverfield universe. Reeves was a regular collaborator with J.J. Abrams for much of the 2000s. He made it a point of bridging his various projects with connecting Easter eggs. Slusho! Originaly introduced in Abrams’s cult spy serial. AliasThe addictive beverages were later seen on the big screen. Super 8 Star TrekThis double bill includes the Reeves-helmed double Bill of Cloverfield Let me In. In CloverfieldThe distinctive brand name is displayed on the shirt worn by one character. A fake Slusho commercial plays in background.

Reeves laughed when asked whether he had any plans to add Slusho to the Gotham City drink supply. He says, “We’ll be seeing.” “You will never know!” It was the first time I had done it. Let me InJ.J. was almost ready to start Super 8I was like “Hey, aren’t you doing a thing for Slusho?” It would be great if we included it in our own thing. It’s in a scene at the gas station. That was the last Slusho I ever had.

CloverfieldThe film’s final Easter egg is the best, as viewers discover exactly how it was made. kaiju New York City. The final scene takes place on the famed, world-famous, SS-88. Deno’s Wonder Wheel At Coney Island, the camera looks out at the water. A meteor is seen coming to Earth and landing with a splash on the horizon. The object becomes an unstoppable killer machine within a month and decimates Manhattan, prompting the military’s decision to nuke the entire island.

A rampaging monster destroys one of New York City's most famous landmarks in Cloverfield. (Photo: ©Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection)

A rampaging monster decimates one of New York City’s most prominent landmarks Cloverfield. (Photo: ©Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection)

Reeves states that Drew Goddard did not write the visual origin story. It was added by the visual effects team towards the end. “That was added very late,” he recalls. “We were working on the visual effects, and we thought, ‘It would have been pretty cool to watch the moment when it comes down.’ The VFX crew replied, ‘Yeah. We can do that.

Reeves adds, “We knew it would be an Easter egg. That would be the type of thing that would be pointed out.” We made adjustments to the lighting so that the meteor was less obvious. People picked it up so quickly! Another Easter egg was found during our sound mix. J.J. wanted to do this radio crackle with me in the scene with the helicopters, where I said “It’s alive!” backwards. Within an hour of the movie’s release, someone had recorded that audio and played it back to figure out what it was. There was intense fandom at the time for the movie.

From l to r: Jessica Lucas, Caplan, Michael Stahl-David and T.J. Miller star in the 2008 monster movie, Cloverfield. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Stars from the 2008 Monster Movie, Cloverfield, Below are Jessica Lucas, Caplan and Michael Stahl-David.

Today, Cloverfield is a true 2008 time capsule, catching rising stars like Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller, Theo Rossi and Ben Feldman — all of whom are victims of the monster’s attack — on their way to bigger things. It also serves as a bridge between the camcorder age and the smartphone era. The iPhone was released in the summer 2007. Cloverfield Reeves said that they were in production. Reeves also acknowledged that if the movie was made now, it would have been shot with a smartphone and not the accidental cameraman Hud Miller.

“We used three different cameras at that time,” he says. “I gave the actors a very small camera, which they passed around to each other to determine how light it was. Hud had a slightly bigger camera and I was able to shoot a lot of the movie by myself. I had to put on [T.J.’s] Sometimes you need shoes to do this stuff. We had the Viper camera, which was heavy enough to do special effects. You could shoot everything on an iPhone, and it would be easier to use. To be completely honest, there’s much more to the movie than you can do now.

While CloverfieldAlthough the technology might scream 2008 but the monster reminds us of the timeless thrills and excitements of Jaws. Reeves used the same approach as Steven Spielberg on his 1975 shark movie, showing the star of the creature in smaller bites than one large gulp.Jaws He admits that he is the Rosetta Stone for movies where there are creatures like this. “But I also looked at lots of footage from the Iraq War, of bombed bases and other stuff. Because your brain begins to feel the terror that the characters are feeling, the more you see it makes it more frightening.

Spielberg is, naturally, back on the awards circuit, this time for his autobiographical drama. The Fabelmans, which reveals — among other things — that The Greatest Show on Earth His obsession with movies was a catalyst for his obsession. Reeves will make his own version of The FabelmansThe credit for his first theatrical experience will go towards a less high-quality picture. He recalls his first moviegoing experience as saying, “It wouldn’t have been something silly.” “It was probably The Apple Dumpling Gang With Tim Conway and Don Knotts. It’s not the same thing. The Greatest Show on Earth.”

The 15th anniversary edition of 4K Steelbook Cloverfield Available Jan. 17 at Amazon

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