A Quiet Place Prequel's Title Sets Up A Big John Krasinski Challenge
The first spinoff in the A Quiet Place franchise now has an official title, one that immediately creates a challenge for itself following the success of the first two films. While a direct sequel to A Quiet Place Part II will not be released until 2025 at the earliest, a new addition to the budding franchise, A Quiet Place: Day One, will hit theaters in 2023. Michael Sarnoski, who impressed critics with his 2021 directorial debut Pig, will direct the spinoff, with John Krasinski serving as a producer.
Krasinski's own directorial debut, A Quiet Place, likewise managed to please both critics and audiences and went on to claim $341 million at the box office–all on a $17 million budget. Despite the commercial success, audiences had to wait a long time for A Quiet Place Part II due to pandemic-related delays. With the sequel maintaining the same level of quality as the first film and proving that the story could be expanded in many different ways, both A Quiet Place 3 and potential spinoffs were expected. Now, the official announcement for A Quiet Place: Day One reveals key information about the franchise's very first spinoff.
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A Quiet Place is known for using title cards to illustrate how many days it has been since it all started, meaning that A Quiet Place: Day One will take the story back to the apocalypse's very beginning. However, A Quiet Place 2's opening sequence already offered a great look at «day one» of the alien invasion, at least in terms of the Abbott's family point of view. The first few minutes of A Quiet Place Part II were almost a short film of their own and managed to perfectly translate the panic and the horror of the beginning of an
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