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John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place franchise is still going, with a prequel titled A Quiet Place: Day One news featuring a new cast and story as it addresses the beginning of the alien invasion. The A Quiet Place franchise takes place in a post-apocalyptical world infested by bloodthirsty creatures that hunt with a heightened sense of hearing. Both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II were massive hits, and the original earned Emily Blunt a SAG Awards win for her supporting role and an Oscar nomination for Best Sound Editing.The story of the Abbott family from the first two movies will continue with A Quiet Place III, which is expected to release sometime in 2025. First, though, the franchise is going back to the start and branching off an expansion of its mythology with another new A Quiet Place movie — A Quiet Place: Day One. After a series of release date delays, this Quiet Place prequel is set to add new perspectives and a range of new characters to the universe of the franchise, moving away from its post-apocalyptic scenario and addressing the very beginning of the catastrophe. Here’s everything we know about A Quiet Place: Day One news.Related: Both A Quiet Place Movies Start & End The Same Way
A Quiet Place: Day One Recent News
The most recent A Quiet Place: Day One news comes from the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. However, unlike much of the news in the entertainment industry lately, this is good news. While John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, and Lupita Nyong’o​​​​​​​ are not allowed to talk about the movie right now, the studio heads and producers can. According to Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, there should be no delay to the A Quiet Place: Day One release date. That is because the movie has already finished filming, and did so before the SAG-AFTRA strike started. This means that A Quiet Place: Day One should reach its 2024 scheduled release.
“The good news is we have a significant number of films on which production is complete. That includes ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ ‘Bob Marley,’ John Krasinski’s ‘If,’ as well as ‘A Quiet Place: Day One,’ and ‘Dear Santa’ with Jack Black. We also have the ‘Mean Girls’ musical for Paramount+.”
A Quiet Place: Day One Is Confirmed
Announced by Paramount initially as an untitled project, the Quiet Place prequel was given a title of A Quiet Place: Day One in early 2022 alongside its 2024 release window, two months after A Quiet Place III was confirmed to be hitting theaters in 2025. While the Abbott family’s journey will resume in Part III, that movie will be released after A Quiet Place: Day One, which will technically be the third installment. This indicates that the production of the prequel A Quiet Place: Day One is far further ahead than A Quiet Place‘s main storyline and explains why the two movies were confirmed separately.Related: A Quiet Place Complete Timeline Explained
A Quiet Place: Day One Release Date
The A Quiet Place: Day One release date is March 8, 2024, provided the production journey goes smoothly. This is after a series of delays that also affected the third installment of the main storyline. While the first two movies of the franchise were released over a two-year period, in 2018 and 2020, it will have been four years since A Quiet Place Part II was released by the time the spinoff prequel hits theaters.
A Quiet Place: Day One Cast
The first actor to join the A Quiet Place: Day One cast was Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o — a name big enough to make the prequel look exciting. Nyong’o’s breakthrough role was Patsey in the period drama 12 Years a Slave, which is still one of her best-reviewed movies and the role that earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. However, she also has experience in both the adventure and horror genres. One of Nyong’o’s most popular movies is Jordan Peele’s Us, which follows a family whose peaceful vacation is interrupted by the arrival of their violent Doppelgängers. Nyong’o plays both the protagonist and the villain in the film, showcasing her talent for conveying fear from different perspectives. The role earned her a SAG Award nomination and, alongside her work in the horror comedy Little Monsters, is a great example of why she’s the perfect fit for a sweat-inducing suspense film franchise like A Quiet Place. The second actor to join the A Quiet Place: Day One cast was Alex Wolff, who is best known for his breakthrough role in Hereditary, which is still considered A24’s best horror movie. Wolff is on his way to becoming a horror/thriller veteran: his recent movies also include Thoroughbreds, Pig, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, which is an unsettling thriller about a beach that reduces people’s entire lifespan to a single day.The A Quiet Place: Day One cast is still taking shape, and while two big movie stars are already confirmed, ongoing deals indicate that more people will be joining the prequel. Joseph Quinn was reportedly negotiating for a part in the film alongside Nyong’o and Wolff. After his breakout role as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things season 4, the actor gained a loyal fan base, and his performance was praised in Netflix’s hit horror/sci-fi show.A Quiet Place: Day One news also confirms that Djimon Hounsou is the first returning cast member, as he had a small but imperative role in A Quiet Place: Part 2. While the prequel is reportedly telling a completely different story about different characters from the ones in the first two movies, Hounsou’s casting opens the floodgates for more A Quiet Place actors to return. Given Blunt’s cheeky response when she was asked about appearing in the movie, she could have a small role too.Some recent A Quiet Place: Day One news comes from Emily Blunt, who starred in the first two movies in the franchise and has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to being asked if she’ll appear in the prequel. The actor explained, “This is Lupita’s movie. You’ll see why when you see it. It will all make sense. This is just new chapters of it and new ways of looking at what went down. I can’t say everything.” Blunt has been known to joke around with questions like these, like when she made a “shush” gesture and put her index finger over her lips when asked if Krasinksi was returning to the MCU. So she could still have a cameo, at the very least.Related: A Quiet Place Prequel Casting Makes Day One Far More Exciting
Who’d Directing A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One has everything to make the prequel more exciting than A Quiet Place III, even though it will be the first movie in the franchise to not be directed by John Krasinski. These changes indicate a new thrilling approach to the franchise’s mythology, though Krasinski is continuing to contribute directly to the movie as co-writer and producer. He revealed he was actually quite satisfied not directing the next A Quiet Place movies, claiming that Jeff Nichols was the person he had in mind all along for the third movie. However, Jeff Nichols exited the project in 2021, handing the reins over to Michael Sarnoski.While Nichols was an exciting name, Sarnoski’s involvement is just as interesting. He is known for his first feature film, Pig, a chilling anti-revenge thriller that generated quite a lot of buzz in 2021, particularly for its bad-movie-streak-breaking lead performance by Nicolas Cage. Alex Wolff is also in that movie, suggesting the beginning of a new long-term actor-director partnership as the two reunite for A Quiet Place: Day One. photos posted by John Krasinski on February 6, 2023, show what A Quiet Place: Day One sets look like and that the franchise’s creator is once again directly involved in the project. Krasinski looked excited to post the traditional picture of himself holding slate on day 1, alongside other set pictures where director Michael Sarnoski and actor Lupita Nyong’o can be spotted wearing warm clothes. The set pictures also suggested details about the film’s location: cobbled streets and little Asian markets indicate a small town setting.
When A Quiet Place: Day One Is Set And How The Story Ties Into A Quiet Place
No official A Quiet Place: Day One news about the plot details has been disclosed yet, but the title already provides valuable clues, especially about where it lands in the Quiet Place timeline. The spinoff prequel will take place before the original movie, exploring the chaos that spread across the world on the day the mysterious bloodthirsty creatures first appeared — while they don’t have an official name, the term “Death Angels” can be seen in a news headline that appears in the Abbott family’s mural.Moviegoers already got a taste of the day the apocalypse began in A Quiet Place Part II‘s introduction, but the prequel will explore new parallel stories and perhaps even some explicit details about the Death Angels, including the Quiet Place monsters’ true name and origin. On the other hand, the unknown factor is crucial for horror movies to work, and it’s probable that John Krasinski is aware that the little that audiences know about the villainous creatures is what makes them scary.Another A Quiet Place: Day One news revealed a behind-the-scenes look at Djimon Hounsou on set. The image sees four cast members posting for a photo together, including Lupita Nyong’o, Alex Wolff, and Joseph Quinn. However, most interestingly, the A Quiet Place prequel BTS photo reveals Hounsou as the first returning cast member, reprising his role known only as “Man on Island.” He’s a mysterious character in A Quiet Place: Part II, but based on the BTS photo post on Instagram by Lupita Nyong’o, who is also part of the cast, Hounsou’s role will be much bigger in the prequel.A Quiet Place: Day One footage was revealed at CinemaCon in April 2023, and the clip revealed a much more ambitious movie compared to its predecessors. The footage that was shown to industry insiders showed alien meteors raining down on the city during the first day of the alien invasion with Nyong’o’s character protecting her children. The clip all but confirmed the prequel will take place in the middle of the chaos. There’s a possibility that A Quiet Place: Day One will lean more on the action rather than the horror. It’s an idea that works with the brutal and electrifying mythology of the franchise and would perfectly adapt to IMAX too.
