Back in October, we learned that the upcoming J. J. Abrams project GOD PARTICLE was going to be another CLOVERFIELD spin-off in the vein of 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. Well that announcement has been made about as official as it's possible to be, as GOD PARTICLE has been removed from the schedule entirely. It was supposed to be released this February, but it has been replaced by a third CLOVERFIELD title in the cushier release slot of October 27, 2017.
It sucks that we'll have to wait eight extra months to see the flick, but that release date shows a lot more confidence in the project than being dumped into the slums of the Winter season. I can't wait to see if they pull it off!
Here's the synopsis we have so far, though that might change as the property merges more with the CLOVERFIELD franchise:
the efforts of scientists aboard an international space station to tap into a new energy source — the mysterious “God Particle.” They inadvertently trigger catastrophic side effects.
Directed by Julius Onah from a screenplay by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung, GOD PARTICLE stars David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ziyi Zhang, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Brühl, and Chris O’Dowd.