Taglines: The future unleashed every thing.
The Earth is suffering from an energy crisis and as a result, war is brewing. A potential solution sees a team of experts flown from Earth out to a space station where they will use a particle accelerator to tap into an unlimited source of energy. Ava (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is leaving behind a loving husband but also a tragedy that saw her two young children die. Along with her international crew (that also includes David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl and Zhang Ziyi), she works tirelessly in an attempt to save humankind. But the process takes longer than expected and when it seems like they might have finally cracked it, all hell breaks loose onboard.
The Cloverfield Paradox is a 2018 American science fiction horror film directed by Julius Onah and written by Oren Uziel, from a story by Uziel and Doug Jung, and produced by J. J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions. It is the third installment in the Cloverfield franchise, following Cloverfield (2008) and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). The film stars Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O’Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo and Zhang Ziyi, and follows an international group of astronauts aboard a space station who, after using a particle accelerator to try to solve Earth’s energy crisis, must find a way home when the planet seemingly vanishes.
The film was based on God Particle, a spec script from Oren Uziel which had the main plot of the space station crew, but was unconnected to Cloverfield. The script was acquired by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot in 2012. It had been initially planned as part of Paramount’s low-budget InSurge distribution label, but following the folding of that label, its production was expanded as a Paramount-distributed film.
Only during production did Abrams decide to link the film to Cloverfield, adapting Uziel’s screenplay and adding scenes to establish the connection, after the same approach was used to alter 10 Cloverfield Lane from its original script, The Cellar. Abrams saw the particle accelerator accident as a cinematic means for future events to cause changes in the past, narratively linking the Cloverfield franchise together.
Once announced as a yet-to-be-named Cloverfield film in late 2016, the film’s release was delayed several times. A surprise trailer aired during Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018, advertising the film’s final title and its release on Netflix, which had purchased rights for the film from Paramount. The release occurred immediately after the game.
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Directed by: Julius Onah
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O’Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, Zhang Ziyi, Roger Davies, Jordan Rivera, Clover Nee, Celeste Clark
Screenplay by: Oren Uziel
Production Design by: Doug J. Meerdink
Cinematography by: Dan Mindel
Film Editing by: Alan Baumgarten, Matt Evans, Rebecca Valente
Costume Design by: Colleen Atwood
Set Decoration by: Amanda Moss Serino
Art Direction by: Mike Piccirillo, Maya Shimoguchi
Music by: Bear McCreary
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: February 4, 2018
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