10 Cloverfield Lane: A Complete Guide To The Viral Marketing

10. Employee Of The Month

All of those highlighted Employee of the Month text led to the discovery of a new page on the Tagruato website shouting out their best workers. These were pretty detailed, running through all of the company's subsidiaries, including Slusho, ParaFUN! Wax Distributors and Yoshida Medical Research, and gave us a look at both Gwon and Guangbiao. But that's nothing compared to this biggie; Employee of the Month: February 2016 for Bold Futura, Tagruato's science subsidiary, is Howard Stambler, John Goodman's character from 10 Cloverfield Line. He's a Telemetry Analyst at the company and the work description stated his "drive, commitment and refusal to accept easy answers resulted in a significant breakthrough diagnosing transmission complications with two of our governmental clients€™ orbiting satellites." There's a few little things that were unpacked from that. Beyond having a direct link to the propagators in the original film (further confirming we're in the same universe), there's a listing of personality traits that no doubt make Howard an idea hostage taker. His position as a Telemetry Analyst, working on the company's satellites, also puts him in the same area as that which led to the initial ChimpanzIII crash, which gives rise to all manner of fan theories. However, the most important part of all this is what at first looks to be the most innocuous...