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[Images] The Monsters in ‘A Quiet Place’ Originally Looked Way Different

Published

6 years ago

July 11, 2018

Back in April, right before A Quiet Place was unleashed into theaters, director/star John Krasinski had explained to Collider that the design of the movie’s creatures (which we had not seen a glimpse of at the time) had been changed at the final hour; according to Krasinski, it was in post-production that the design of the computer-generated monsters was changed!

“I had designed this character and this creature, and we loved it. We had so many details like drawings and boards and things for the kids to look at,” he told the site. “And then I was really deep in the [post-production], and it was one of those moments where — this sounds super nerdy, but now I understand when people talk about visual effects and seeing this — you could just see that he wasn’t going to work as well as a different design.”

Now that A Quiet Place is out on DVD/Blu-ray, we have an idea of what those original designs looked like. Via Screen Rant, the bonus features highlight the film’s early designs.

The site explains…

“According to comments made by the crew in the special features on A Quiet Place’s home video release, the production team led by Jeffery Beecroft and concept artist Luis Carrasco, as well as many other crew members, started by making the monster blind since they were drawn to sound. Krasinski took inspiration from prehistoric fish, with Beecroft looking at nautilus shells. While all that eventually led to the final design, they originally had much bigger, more rigid monsters on their mind.”

Check out the early concepts below and be sure to pick up the film on Blu-ray.

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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel

Published

35 mins ago

April 24, 2024

Meagan Navarro

28 Days Later, Ralph Fiennes in the Menu

Pictured: Ralph Fiennes in 'The Menu'

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).

The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.

No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.

28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.

Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.

The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.

Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!