A QUIET PLACE 2 - Thread

[AndyDursin]

Guess they liked the concept as Krasinski is now back to direct as well as write...Blunt's return is interesting though, because it implies there's more of a connection between this and the follow-up Krasinski originally described writing a few months ago. Either way I'm onboard to see what they can cook up.

EXCLUSIVE: Sources says John Krasinski is returning to direct A Quiet Place 2. He already was on board to write the sequel.
We hear production will begin in July on the film produced by Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.

We also hear that Emily Blunt’s deal for the sequel is closed as well. She recently won a Screen Actors Guild best supporting actress award for her turn in the film. Today on Instagram Krasinski announced the sequel’s release date: May 15, 2020.

The $17M production made its world premiere at SXSW a year ago, where it promptly sent electricity into the audience. The pic was expected to open around $30M, and over-performed its domestic tracking with a $50.2M opening, and final stateside of $188M, $340M WW. With Paramount struggling before Jim Gianopulos’ arrival to the studio, A Quiet Place came as a wonderful renaissance for them. Gianopulos announced the sequel to the alien thriller last spring at CinemaCon.

The dazzle of A Quiet Place: It was largely a near dialogue-less screenplay where sound was the motivating fear factor. The movie is Oscar-nominated for Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl’s sound editing work.

The original feature left off with Emily Blunt’s protagonist, Evelyn Abbott, rifle-in-hand, ready to take down the aliens swarming her farm where she and her kids had cloistered.

Following the success of A Quiet Place, producers Fuller and Form launched a new production label at Paramount, Fully Formed, Entertainment. Deadline exclusively reported the news back in October.

https://deadline.com/2019/02/john-krasi ... 202562878/

[Monterey Jack]

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[AndyDursin]

Hopefully it won't. I have some faith in Krasinski, I don't think he'd be doing it just for the money, I truly don't. I mean I can see writing and producing it, but going back to direct makes me feel like he has something up his sleeve.

[Monterey Jack]

I just kind of loved that brilliant "cut to black" ending to the original, where you knew EXACTLY what was going to happen, but didn't really need to see it. I mean, I hope it's good, and maybe it can be the Aliens to the original's Alien, but when an out-of-nowhere success story gets quickly sequelized, it's usually not a good sign. I mean, we never got The Seventh Sense, did we?

[AndyDursin]

Admittedly I think there's a lot more you can do with this setting than The Seventh Sense. Lol. They could easily switch to another environment. They barely explained much of anything about the aliens so there is a lot of untapped potential there about how/why they are here. Yes the simple, straight narrative line and lack of dialogue in the original were huge assets. But you can keep those and make a savvy sequel with the right hook, and just open the story up enough to bring in new components and characters.

If Krasinski wasnt directing and the movie was being handed off to a different writer or director I would not be optimistic at all. But I have faith that with him there, this will be worthwhile and will expand upon the first film's concepts. And why not give him a shot...hasnt he earned it? I am much more interested in what he might have planned than any of Disney's reruns this year. Its a big challenge to follow up that film, but lets see if he can do it.

[Monterey Jack]

Oh, I'm definitely seeing this, but I'm just mildly disappointed that a great one-off, out-of-nowhere smash hit that made so much money in large part because it wasn't just another piece of corporate "product" is now Just Another Franchise.

[AndyDursin]

But, you have to admit, that's nothing new though. Every movie made for a studio since time began has the possibility of being sequelized if its a hit....doesnt matter what it is. They made a sequel to LOVE STORY back in the 70s. Or how about SON OF KONG in 1933! With the audience barely knowing anything about the world they established, there are at least a lot more avenues for the story to go down.

Here's the Hollywood Reporter story:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... -2-1189124

It is interesting that this isn't the "new characters in a different setting" concept Krasinski described earlier:

The team considered two options for the follow-up: one would have focused on a brand new aspect of the postapocalyptic world featuring the creatures, and the second involved the continuing saga of the protective mother and her children.

Looks like Paramount opted for the latter...understandably, but that does make it even more challenging in a way to follow it up.

The studio is in talks with Emily Blunt and kid stars Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe to reprise their roles of the family fighting to survive a world crawling with noise-targeting creatures.

John Krasinski, who directed and starred in the original, is set to direct the sequel, which will go before cameras in late summer. On Friday, Krasinski cryptically Instagrammed his involvement, writing "…time to go back."

Krasinski was already writing the script, and it was an open secret around town that he would direct. More interestingly are the actor talks.

Simmonds and Jupe are said to be under option, meaning that, when their initial deals were made, the studio reserved them for any possible follow-ups — however unlikely that seemed with a horror movie featuring almost no dialogue and costing only $17 million to make.

Things have changed $340 million later. The budget for the new movie will be much higher, although by how much remains unclear as the script is still being written. The upping of the budget, however, means pay bumps for the rising stars could be in the offing.

Another foil in the talks is Blunt. The actress commands a high seven figure salary for most studio fare — sources say she received payment in the $8 million to $9 million range for the last movie she finished, Jungle Cruise — but did A Quiet Place at a much lower rate — reportedly around $1 million, not factoring the back end and profit participation — since the movie was a passion project for Krasinski, her husband. Insiders say she will, once again, be looking to take a cut to be part of the sequel.

[Monterey Jack]

Practically perfect in every way...!

[AndyDursin]

Movin' on up...

Paramount is moving up John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place 2 from its first announced May 15, 2020 date to March 20, 2020.

The new release date brings the sci-fi horror thriller back to the original’s spring launchpad. A Quiet Place made its world premiere at SXSW last year and opened roughly a month later on April 6, to outstanding $50.2M and ending its domestic run at $188M, $340.9M global — a complete surprise.

A Quiet Place 2 leaves behind Warner Bros. Scoob on May 15, 2020 and will the marquee on March 20, 2020 with Lionsgate’s I Still Believe.

https://deadline.com/2019/05/a-quiet-pl ... 202622152/

[AndyDursin]

All done filming??! Talk about putting a lid on it....hire those security guards stat!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joh ... 07700.html

[AndyDursin]

Here's a teaser that's an actual TEASER (as opposed to the teasers we get today that are actually TRAILERS).

[Monterey Jack]

It's set "immediately" after the first, and yet the kids both look two years older.

[AndyDursin]

I have no issue with it -- would rather have that than the IT kids being "de-aged"!

[AndyDursin]

Looks like they went the more predictable "man is the biggest enemy of all" route with this. Hmmm....

[Paul MacLean]

Why don't any of the characters in these movies think to wear socks?