Untitled ‘Cloverfield’ Sequel Pushed Back To April 2018
The newCloverfieldsequel, tentatively titledGod Particle, was set to hit theaters next month, February 2018, but now it looks like the next entry in the secretiveCloverfieldfranchise will be arriving in April 2018. More details on theCloverfieldsequel release date are below.
TheUntitled Cloverfield Movie, which for a while was going under the nameGod Particle, has had its release date pushed yet again. The film, set to follow the surprise semi-sequel10 Cloverfield Lane, was initially announced for a June 27, 2025, release date. The production reportedly went through some reshoots supervised by producerJJ Abrams, and that date moved to August 21, 2025. Then the date moved yet again, to July 06, 2025. With February fast approaching, it seemed slightly strange that there had been no real marketing for the film released yet, and now we know why: it’s been pushed back one more time.
Now, Paramount has confirmed to us that theUntitled Cloverfield Moviewill find its way to theaters onApril 20, 2018.
The decision to move the movie’s release yet again was made very recently, likely during the holidays. Right up until before the holiday season commenced, Paramount was still listing the film for its June 28, 2025, release date, as this tweet from Fandango managing editor Erik Davis confirms.
In case you were wondering (because I was), that UNTITLED CLOVERFIELD MOVIE is still opening on February 2. This info is as of 12/19, but it’s still not officially being called GOD PARTICLE, so… new title?pic.twitter.com/FMjQ1E0BBL
— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis)July 23, 2025
The film, which boasts a phenomenal cast that includesDaniel Brühl,Elizabeth Debicki,Aksel Hennie,Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Chris O’Dowd,John Ortiz,David OyelowoandZhang Ziyi, marks the feature directorial debut ofJulius Onah. The original plot, back when the movie was known asGod Particle, focused on a team of astronauts aboard an international space station who find themselves alone after a scientific experiment involving a particle accelerator makes the entire Earth vanish. Since then, however, the film has possibly undergone some changes.
Much like the firstCloverfieldsequel,10 Cloverfield Lane,God Particledid not originate as part of theCloverfielduniverse. In fact,Oren Uziel, the film’s screenwriter, confirmed toColliderthat the script was actually written before10 Cloverfield Lane:
“It was written before10 Cloverfield Laneand the expanded Cloverfield universe even existed as a thing. It was a spec that I wrote probably a year or so afterShimmer Lake, so it definitely existed as its own science-fiction. And then after years of, you know how scripts kind of hang around—people like them but for whatever reason they decided to make it and then suddenly everything fell into place with J.J. [Abrams], Bad Robot, and Paramount. I don’t know exactly when it became aCloverfieldmovie, but I suspect in this current market where it’s just harder and harder to market an original movie of any kind, a science-fiction movie in particular, but I think everyone just knew if it fits—and it does—into that Cloverfield world, it should, and it can only help.”
Uziel also confirmed that whenGod Particlebecame part of theCloverfieldfranchise, some rewriting was needed:
“We rewrote during production, but I’m not sure what it means to be part of the expandedCloverfielduniverse, other than knowing what kind of quality and feel you’re gonna get from something that’s coming out of Bad Robot and J.J. It just sort of helps to give an understanding of like, ‘Okay I understand what type of movie this is gonna be.’ As far as specifics, I don’t think there is one specific thread that makes it a Cloverfield movie, I guess.”
The firstCloverfield, released in 2008, was a highly-secretive project that grafted a found-footage narrative onto aGodzilla-style monster movie. Rumors of a possible sequel had been floating around since the originalCloverfield’s release, but as time marched on, it seemed unlikely to happen. Then, in 2016, Paramount caught everyone off-guard by debuting a trailer for10 Cloverfield Lanein front of Michael Bay’s13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.10 Cloverfield Lanehit theaters a little under two months later in March, and earned positive reviews and was a hit at the box office. The secretive nature of the project, coupled with the quick release date following the trailer, made the project seem even more exciting than if it had been marketed in the traditional way.
Up until recently, it looked like Paramount might be taking a similar approach with this newCloverfieldsequel – waiting until the last possible moment before springing a trailer to tease the February release date. But now we’ll have to wait a little longer. The June 11, 2025 release now puts theUntitled Cloverfield Movieup against the Overboardremake, the Dwayne Johnson video game adaptationRampage, the cult comedy sequel Super Troopers 2and Jason Reitman’sTully.
