Screenwriter Oren Uziel has revealed how his sci fi flick God Particle became part of the Cloverfield Universe.

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Speaking to Collider, Uziel said that things just "fell into place" when his spec script was picked up by J.J. Abrams. “It was written before 10 Cloverfield Lane and the expanded Cloverfield universe even existed as a thing," said Uziel. "And then after years of, you know how scripts kind of hang around...suddenly everything fell into place with J.J. [Abrams], Bad Robot, and Paramount. I don’t know exactly when it became a Cloverfield movie, but I suspect in this current market where it’s just harder and harder to market an original movie of any kind, a science-fiction movie in particular, but I think everyone just knew if it fits—and it does—into that Cloverfield world, it should, and it can only help.”Uziel's story is similar to Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken's, whose spec script The Cellar was picked up by Bad Robot and eventually turned into 10 Cloverfield Lane, a movie that takes place in the Cloverfield Universe but is remarkably different in tone to the 2008 found footage monster movie that kickstarted the franchise. As for any rewrites to make God Particle more of a blood relative to Cloverfield than a standalone sci-fi slick, Uziel had this to say:“We rewrote during production, but I’m not sure what it means to be part of the expanded Cloverfield universe, other than knowing what kind of quality and feel you’re gonna get from something that’s coming out of Bad Robot and J.J. It just sort of helps to give an understanding of like, ‘Okay I understand what type of movie this is gonna be.’ As far as specifics, I don’t think there is one specific thread that makes it a Cloverfield movie, I guess.”Uziel likens the Cloverfield universe to Rob Serling's series The Twilight Zone, where every episode was standalone but the brand is very suggestive of a type of tone."When you turn on The Twilight Zone, that’s sort of the way I think about it. I don’t know what this story is going to be, but I know it’s going to be a Twilight Zone story… It’s like an anthology for those kinds of movies, and I think if J.J., if what he’s doing is positioning himself a little bit to be the Rod Serling of J.J.-type science-fiction movies, more power to him.”Bad Robot and Paramount's God Particle was first announced in 2012 . Here's the description of God Particle from our original 2012 article:"After a physics experiment with a large hadron accelerator causes the Earth to seemingly vanish completely, the terrified crew of an orbiting American space station is left floating in the middle of now-even-more-empty space. When a European spacecraft appears on their radar, the Americans must determine whether it’s their salvation, or a harbinger of doom."It's released in theatres - presumably with a brand new name - October 27th.