10 Cloverfield Lane is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film and the directorial debut of Dan Trachtenberg. The film was written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stucken, and Damien Chazelle and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher, Jr. The film started as a script titled The Cellar, but during production under Bad Robot Productions, it evolved to become a spiritual successor of the 2008 film Cloverfield, although the two films do not share the same fictional universe or continuity. 10 Cloverfield Lane to be released on March 11, 2016 in DLP and IMAX 2D.