"A Modern-Day Twilight Zone": First Reviews Arrive For '10 Cloverfield Lane' Plus New Images, TV Spots, And Posters
J.J. Abrams likes secrets and knows how to keep them. However, it's pretty remarkable that the lid on "10 Cloverfield Lane" managed to stay closed for so long. Well, it helps when you don't even tell the cast members that the movie they shot, which went under the working title "The Cellar" or "Valencia," was now part of a major franchise — and even then, only mention that fact before the trailer is about to drop.
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"[Director] Dan [Trachtenberg] called me literally an hour before the trailer came out and told me the title of the movie," Mary Elizabeth Winstead told Rolling Stone. "My first reaction was '… OK. That's interesting. I'm not quite sure how to feel about it, but that's interesting. And then I started checking Twitter around the time that the trailer dropped and I was like: 'Oh!' "
The genesis for all this started when Abrams, who produced the picture, first picked...