It’s not uncommon for movies — especially genre movies — to be reworked to fit in an existing franchise. Saw 2 was originally a script entitled The Desperate. Multiple Die Hard movies were just retooled spec scripts, and others were based on (unrelated) novels. Even the Dirty Dancing sequel, Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights, began as a political drama script that had dancing shoehorned in later.
But no franchise is better proof of this than Cloverfield. The franchise of sci-fi invasion movies began with 2008’s Cloverfield, but each of its two sequels, 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Cloverfield Paradox, were retooled from original scripts to fit into the “Cloververse.” Now, another movie is sparking speculation that it, too, could be part of this universe, despite the fact that it’s not being marketed as such: The End of Oak Street, the new movie from It Follows and Under the Silver Lake director David Robert Mitchell. Check out the haunting trailer for the movie below:
