Did the Cloverfield sequel ‘God Particle’ just get a new release date?

Back in October, an unconfirmed report pegged director Julius Onah’s upcoming filmGod Particleas the third film in the Cloverfield series, with plenty of secrecy surrounding the J.J. Abrams-produced project in much the same fashion as 2008’sCloverfieldand this year’s10 Cloverfield Lane. However, a new shift in Paramount Pictures’ release calendar has added another layer of mystery to the project.

In an announcement made this week, the studio reserved the weekend of July 09, 2025, for an untitled “Cloverfield Movie” that will arrive in IMAX theaters. Meanwhile, the studio quietly removedGod Particlefrom its previously announced February 2017 release date, and declined to set a new opening weekend for the film.

So what does all of this schedule-shuffling mean for the Cloverfield series?

Although nothing is confirmed at this point,speculationsuggests that Paramount is effectively pushing back the release of the movie currently titledGod Particleto the aforementioned October 2017 weekend, while simultaneously staying flexible regarding the film’s final, official title. The first two installments of the loosely connected anthology series each had the world “Cloverfield” in their titles, so there’s reason to believe that ifGod Particleis indeed the third film in the series, it could have its title tweaked prior to going on the official studio calendar.

Little is known about the plot ofGod Particleat this point, but the film reportedly follows a group of astronauts aboard an American space station who find themselves in peril after an accident with a particle accelerator. The film is directed by Onah (The Girl is in Trouble) from a script originally penned by22 Jump StreetandFreaks of Naturewriter Oren Uziel and later rewritten byStar Trek Beyondco-writer Doug Jung.

The cast of the film includes David Oyelowo (Selma), John Krasinski (The Office), Elizabeth Debicki (The Man From UNCLE), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Concussion), Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd), Ziyi Zhang (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and Daniel Bruhl (Captain America: Civil War).

Whatever the case may be, the trailer for the aforementioned, mystery Cloverfield movie is expected to debut withTransformers: The Last Knightin June 2017. Previous films in the series have always had their trailers attached to Michael Bay movies, with the firstCloverfieldtrailer debuting withTransformersin 2007 and the trailer for10 Cloverfield Laneappearing ahead of Bay’s recent film13 Hours. In fact, that might be the first time we get some confirmation regarding the project — leaving quite a few months to develop the sort of speculation and rumors that have surrounded each Cloverfield film.