
While walking back home, Beau turns on the space shuttle, which starts making noise. When they leave, Beau takes back the batteries without anyone noticing. As they are getting ready to leave, Regan secretly gives him back the toy, but without its batteries. When the family goes into the nearby town for supplies, Beau finds a toy space shuttle, but Lee makes him leave it behind due to the noise it would make if powered on. The Abbott family – mother Evelyn, father Lee, deaf daughter Regan, and sons Marcus and Beau – live on their isolated farm in the middle of a forest in upstate New York, and have survived by taking precautions such as laying sand paths to avoid stepping on crunching leaves and using American Sign Language when communicating. Sightless aliens with sharp hearing and impenetrable armor plating have taken over the planet and killed most of the human population. A spinoff, titled A Quiet Place: Day One, and a second sequel, A Quiet Place Part III, are scheduled to be released on Maand in 2025, respectively. It was nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Blunt won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.Ī sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, premiered in New York City on Maand was released in the United States on May 28, 2021, with Krasinski returning as director and the main cast also returning with the addition of Cillian Murphy. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2018. It grossed more than $350 million worldwide and received critical acclaim. Filming took place in upstate New York from May to November 2017.Ī Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018, and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures.

Krasinski and Blunt were cast in the lead roles in May 2017.

In July 2016, Krasinski read their spec script and was hired to direct and rewrite the script in March the following year. The plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother ( Emily Blunt) who struggle to survive and rear their children ( Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing.īeck and Woods began developing the story while in college. A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck.
