


Several tie-ins, including a prequel manga series, were released as part of the film's marketing campaign.Ĭloverfield was released on January 18, 2008, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised Reeves' direction and the film's cinéma vérité style narrative. With limited details revealed about the film prior to release, it garnered online speculation, including forums and websites dedicated to uncovering any hidden information about the film. The film's official title was revealed in a second teaser trailer attached to screenings of Beowulf. As part of a viral marketing campaign, a teaser trailer was released ahead of screenings of Transformers without a title attached.

During production, the project went under several working titles, including Slusho, Cheese and Greyshot. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles and New York City that same year. In February 2007, the project was secretly greenlit by Paramount Pictures and produced by Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Abrams started conceptualizing a new monster and enlisted Neville Page to design the creature, referred to as Clover. The film follow six young New York City residents fleeing from a massive monster and various other smaller creatures that attack the city while they are having a farewell party.ĭevelopment began when producer J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, and Mike Vogel. The film stars Michael Stahl-David, Odette Yustman, T.J. Cloverfield is a 2008 American found footage monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J.
