A new trailer for The End of Oak Street is here, and I still think it's a secret entry in the Cloverfield franchise.
In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, Greg Platt (Ewan McGregor) listens as his daughter Audrey (Maisy Stella) and son Brian (Christian Convery) tell him about the flash of light they saw outside the night before. He jokingly suggests it must be aliens, but it's not long before we cut over to his wife Denise (Anne Hathaway) seeing a dinosaur in the backyard. What follows is a montage of clips involving the family taking on a range of prehistoric creatures with a shotgun.
Directed by It Follows helmer David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, the movie's official synopsis reads, "After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings."
Now, there hasn't been a new Cloverfield movie since 2018's The Cloverfield Paradox, and it's been theorized that the overall poor reception to the film is what killed off the franchise. So, while you could very well say that fans are so thirsty for a new installment that they saw a Bad Robot production banner on a new post-apocalyptic-ish sci-fi movie and decided to run with it... but it kind of fits perfectly with the whole 'the world is now open to different universes and creatures' thing that we saw in 10 Cloverfield Lane. The flash of light in the beginning of the trailer is also eerily reminiscent... and the film was originally titled Flowervale Street. Case closed, if you ask me.
The End of Oak Street arrives in theaters on August 14. For more on what to watch, check out our guide to the rest of this year's biggest movie release dates.
