With a current rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and rave reviews across the board, it’s looking like John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place is going to be a huge hit with horror fans, the film set to arrive in theaters this weekend. As you’ve probably gathered, there are creatures in the movie… creatures that *most* of the marketing has shrouded in secrecy.
(Never mind this week’s “final trailer,” which you should avoid at all costs.)
Not surprisingly, producer Andrew Form just noted in a chat with Cinema Blend, Krasinski was inspired by the ultimate “keep the monster hidden” horror movie, Jaws.
“Creatively, John was always talking about Jaws. From the first conversation we’ve ever had about the movie, he was referencing that film,” Form told the site. “We’ve all learned that… Brad and I have worked on a lot of these genre films, the less you show the scarier. We really talked about when do you show the creature? How much here or there? That scene in the cornfield with Reagan, the daughter, that scene could’ve been two minutes longer with the two of them. It was really talked about, how much to show.”
Form also talked about the design of the creatures, which we do eventually see.
“The design of the creature was definitely the hardest part of it,” he recalled. “Luckily, we had ILM on the movie, who to us, are one of the best in the world, and we just kept challenging ourselves, because everyone will always say to you, ‘Everything’s been done. What’s your creature look like?’ How do you do anything new anymore, with the amount of movies that have been made? So you have these artists drawing designs and everyone looks at them and they’re like ‘No, that looks like Alien or that looks like this, that looks like that,’ and it’s really a challenge to come up with something fresh and new. We did have the sound element, which was our big deal. The hearing and the ears were the most important part of these creatures.”
He added, “Very late in the design process, the design of the creature actually happened and ILM, I’m sure, wishes it was six months earlier but we definitely were struggling with the design and are wildly happy with the way it came out.”
In the film…
A family lives an isolated existence in utter silence, for fear of an unknown threat that follows and attacks at any sound.
Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds star.
Michael Bay produced along with his partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote the original draft of the script.
Paramount Pictures will release A Quiet Place on April 6, 2018.
