Had 10 Cloverfield Lane not carried a connection to Cloverfield, it likely would have fallen through the cracks.
The loosely-connected sci-fi horror series began in 2008 with Cloverfield, a J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie about a towering alien terrorizing New York.
A sequel of sorts arrived in 2016 with 10 Cloverfield Lane, a Twilight Zone-like thriller only vaguely connected to the original film.
Like 10 Cloverfield Lane before it, Cloverfield 3 began life as a standalone story unconnected to the Cloverfield universe. The film’s writer Oren Uziel previously described how his God Particle script was extensively reworked to become the film possibly called Cloverfield Station.