So far we know that the Dan Trachtenberg-directed 10 Cloverfield Lane is a blood-relative to Cloverfield – which was directed by Matt Reeves. Producer J.J. Abrams made that abundantly clear when a surprise trailer made its debut in theaters alongside 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi earlier this year. But just sharing the name has a few thinking that the new film is a direct sequel to the 2008 sci-fi hit.

Now Abrams wants to clear the air. Despite the fact that the two films share the same name, and the characters are in the same world as the first Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane is not “Cloverfield 2.” It’s just 10 Cloverfield Lane. Check out what he had to say here below.

Two trailers later and we are no closer to figuring out what exactly Dan Trachtenberg‘s 10 Cloverfield Lane is about.

A new trailer debuted on AMC last night during The Walking Dead midseason premiere, and Paramount has released it online, so watch you can it here below.

Paramount Pictures has just revealed the Super Bowl TV spot for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the Bad Robot “blood relative” to the first Cloverfield film.

Watch the new spot here below.

Paramount Pictures attached a surprising trailer to Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Following much speculation and rumor, it has now been confirmed that this trailer is for the new Dan Trachtenberg film 10 Cloverfield Lane, starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr.

Now, going by the title of the film and that it’s a Bad Robot production, one would assume that this is a sequel to 2008’s Cloverfield. Well, this is partially correct. As producer J.J. Abrams would explain, the film isn’t exactly a sequel, describing it as a “blood-relative” to Cloverfield. Check out his full statement, plus the official trailer and poster, in the story here below.

It’s being reported that Dan Trachtenberg will make his directorial debut on a movie titled Valencia being produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for Paramount Insurge. The movie tells the story of a girl who wakes up in an underground cellar after a car accident who’s told by a strange companion that a nuclear attack has devastated society.

Trachtenberg is a commercial director who impressed with short films like More Than You Can Chew and the live-action Portal short No Escape, leading to feature directing jobs like Crime of the Century and the long-awaited adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s incredible graphic novel Y: The Last Man.

So what does this mean for the Y: The Last Man movie?