2) Cloverfield
The Movies: 2008’s Cloverfield was an enjoyable entry in the found-footage genre, as a group of friends record an alien invasion of New York. In 2016, a tangential follow-up was released – 10 Cloverfield Lane. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman, it was a tense thriller about a woman who is kidnapped by a man claiming that the apocalypse has occurred. Producer J.J. Abrams has said that he hopes to continue the Cloverfield saga in a series of separate movies linked by common themes. Like a big screen version of The Twilight Zone.
The TV Show: While it would be fascinating to see an anthology film series, as such a thing has never really been pulled off successfully, a more natural home for Abrams’ idea is TV. Anthology shows are in vogue at the moment – from the traditional weekly structure of Black Mirror to the ‘new story every season’ approach of American Horror Story and True Detective.
A Cloverfield show could fit either mold, but a season-long story would probably be most effective. Much like the two films seen so far, each run could take a look at the alien invasion from different perspectives, all working together to enrich one single storytelling universe but without being too dependent on each other.