Paramount Pictures wants you to experience the day the world went quiet, whether you were seeking that entertainment experience or not. That’s the premise of A Quiet Place: Day One, the prequel to the two Quiet Place movies that came out in 2018 and 2021 respectively.
For those of you who are blessed with ignorance about this franchise, the premise is that Earth is attacked by aliens who attack anything (or just humans in particular, maybe, the logic doesn’t quite work) who makes a sound. The first two films take place several months after the initial invasion, but Day One starts out the day they first invade. In it, we follow Lupita Nyong’o’s character, Samira, as she and her cat try to survive the attack. We see in the trailer that she eventually teams up with a guy named Eric (Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn) as they try to stay alive and leave Manhattan.
The trailer also gives us a lot of visuals of the aliens in question, who look like a cross between a giant spider and the creatures from Stranger Things. We also see the characters whispering a lot, which we know isn’t quite quiet enough for these extraterrestrials, but I digress.
Michael Sarnoski (Pig) directed the film and wrote the screenplay for Day One. The story comes from him and John Krasinski, who starred in and directed the first two films. Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, and Krasinski serve as producers. In addition to Nyong’o and Quinn, Day One stars Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou.
A Quiet Place: Day One premieres in theaters on June 28, 2024.
Check out the trailer below.
