John Krasinski is returning to the director’s chair for A Quiet Place 2, with Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe reprising their roles.
Cillian Murphy is also on board for Paramount’s sequel, which now has Brian Tyree Henry in talks to costar, reports TheWrap.
Last year’s smash hit took place in a post-apocalyptic world where a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from extraterrestrial monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.
The sequel will open almost exactly two years later, on March 20, 2020.
In a recent chat with Business Insider, Krasinski teased the upcoming second film.
“I don’t even see it as a sequel,” Krasinski told the site. “Emily [Blunt] actually blew my mind by categorizing it the correct way after I pitched it to her. She said, ‘This isn’t a sequel at all — this is the second book in a series of books. It’s a widening of a world.’ And I thought that’s the best way to look at it. It doesn’t feel like a sequel — it’s a continuation of living in that world.”
He continued, “I can’t wait to get in there and keep writing and see what this movie wants to allow itself to be. And that will happen in the script process and the shooting and the editing. But I think what’s cool about the second part of this movie is the same set of rules have to apply. I can’t just introduce a world where you can make a ton of sound, and if I did, there would have to be a reason for it. So it’s figuring out if there are smart and clever ways to do it.”
