Trivia / 10 Cloverfield Lane

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• Dolled-Up Installment: Originally written as an unrelated low-budget thriller by the name of "The Cellar", once Bad Robot got the rights to the screenplay, they thought it would make a good addition to the Cloverfield series.
• Production Posse: J.J. Abrams once again produces, and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves are executive producers.
• Sleeper Hit: It was a spin-off to a film that had come out eight years prior and generally isn't remembered all that fondly or well, released in a fairly competitive month, made for a pretty low budget of fifteen million and it was set in a confined location with three actors, only one of whom is a household name. It ended up doing quite well at the box office and earned rave reviews, being praised by many as one of the best films of the year.
• Viral Marketing: As with its predecessor. This time it turns out that John Goodman's character, Howard Stambler is an employee of Tagruato and his job as a telemetry analyst involves working with satellites. Following a URL from the t-shirt on his picture (Radio Man 70) leads to a website that belongs to his daughter Megan that contains a few hidden messages, revealing that he has a history of building bomb shelters and seems to know something huge enough that he's warning her of it and wants her to get into one of the shelters he built.
• Voice-Only Cameo: Bradley Cooper voices Michelle's abusive boyfriend who is heard over the opening scene trying to convince Michelle to stay with him.
• What Could Have Been:
  • It's a well known fact that Abrams has been trying to make a direct sequel to Cloverfield for years. One of the reasons why he decided against it in the end was because after Pacific Rim and Godzilla (2014), he believed there was no way he could top it.
  • In the original script, Howard would have been more sympathetic and the actual main character instead of Michelle.
• Written-In Infirmity: J. J. Abrams confirmed that Howard's shaved beard was a continuity error. The crew came back from holiday, and John Goodman had happened to have shaved in the interim. The Script Supervisor simply missed it.

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