Director Dan Trachtenberg Says He Would Be Open to Making a 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Sequel With Mary Elizabeth Winstead

In 2016, Dan Trachtenberg made his feature directorial debut with the fun horror flick 10 Cloverfield Lane. He has since directed episodes of Black Mirror, The Boys, and The Lost Symbol, and in 2022 he directed the adventure drama Prey. He is also directing the first episode of the upcoming final season of Stranger Things, but he wouldn’t mind returning to his first major project if the story and timing were right.

In a recent interview with CinemaBlend, Trachtenberg was asked if he’d ever discussed making a sequel to 10 Cloverfield Lane with the star of the film, Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Ahsoka). Trachtenberg said they’d only briefly talked about it in hypothetical scenarios, but he didn’t rule the possibility of it out happening someday.

He explained:

“I would still totally be open to it. I think Mary would…We talked a little bit in like ‘what if’ scenarios. And then I was pulled, all the filmmakers were sort of pulled into other things. But I would still consider it. There’s a lot that would be in the genre that that would be in, but you never know.”

While we wait to see if that projects ever comes to fruition, a fourth Cloverfield movie is currently in the works. The first film, Cloverfield, was released in 2008, and the third Cloverfield movie, The Cloverfield Paradox, released directly onto Netflix in 2018.

J.J. Abrams previously stated the new Cloverfield film would directly follow the 2008 found-footage movie directed by Matt Reeves. Babak Anvari was announced as the director of the fourth film in September 2022, with Joe Barton writing the script.