10 Cloverfield Lane was conceived as a self-contained indie called The Cellar. The premise was pretty much the same, with a woman called Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) awakening in a bunker ...
That's right. 10 Cloverfield Lane wasn't the only entry in the franchise to receive a makeover. The Netflix original started as a sci-fi thriller called God Particle, written by Oren Uziel.