10 Popular Movie Fan Theories Debunked By The Creators

6. It Takes Place In The Cloververse - A Quiet Place

The Theory

Before John Krasinski's tightly-wound sci-fi horror flick hit cinemas, many fans were convinced that A Quiet Place would be the latest entry into the fast-growing Cloververse.

After all, the film's distributor was Paramount - the studio behind Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane and (initially) The Cloverfield Paradox - and with the plot revolving around a family trying to survive an alien invasion, it seemed totally consistent with the style and tone of the Cloververse.

Hell, even once A Quiet Place hit cinemas and contained no explicit references to Cloverfield, some fans still couldn't let it go, convinced that the now-shooting sequel might finally confirm the link.

How It Was Debunked

Though the film's writers, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, confirmed there was initially the possibility of A Quiet Place becoming a Cloververse movie, they quickly decided to go in another direction, while producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form were never even aware of the possibility.

Fuller said, "This was never going to be a Cloverfield movie. It was a spec script that we bought at Paramount 18 months ago and never had anything to do with Cloverfield...It was just one of those things where the first teaser was released and people started to play the game. I think it kind of went away when the Cloverfield movie, you know the Paradox, came out."

Form added, "That's not our world. I mean that's J.J.'s world and he's carefully curating that Cloverfield world. So I don't even know if this is something that he would want...I think John [Krasinski] has created this amazing world with these characters and I think A Quiet Place definitely lives on its own."

So if you're idly hoping that A Quiet Place 2 might suddenly reveal the franchise to be part of the Cloververse, you can stop that madness right now.