When Jovan Adepo first read the script for Overlord during the auditioning process, he was excited. `I was just thinking to myself, `This is an incredibly ambitious film,`` the actor told GameSpot during a recent interview.Overlord follows a small squad of World War II paratroopers on a mission to destroy a radio tower on the eve of the famous Normandy landing in 1944. In a small French village, they discover horrifying experiments being perpetrated by evil Nazi scientists. Adepo plays Boyce, a member of the squad and the movie`s main protagonist.Naturally, in addition to the film`s ambition, Adepo also liked one of the names attached to the movie: producer J.J. Abrams. `When my agent first told me about it and he told me who was involved, you know, I was obviously intrigued,` Adepo said. But it was more than just working with Abrams. Adepo spent much of production wondering the same thing as many fans: whether Overlord was going to be a Cloverfield movie.`I`m a digger, man. I came from a journalist background, so I`m naturally very nosy,` Adepo said. `I was watching Cloverfield Paradox right after the Super Bowl, and I was really curious as to how we were going to be connected to them, or if we were at all.`The question was treated as mystery internally, just like it was to those outside the movie. At one point, Adepo flat out asked: `It might not have been the smartest thing, but whatever--I just went up to one of the producers and I was like, `Hey are we a part of the Cloverfield universe? And he was like, `Uh, Jovan, I don`t know,` and I know he knew, but he just wasn`t going to tell me. But I mean, that`s what you expect. Bad Robot is very good at keeping everything in this `mystery box` until it`s the perfect time.`Adepo said if there were Cloverfield connections in the early version of the script that he saw during auditioning, he never noticed them. And the script apparently underwent only minor changes after that, such as altering Boyce`s background af ...
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