First A Quiet Place: Day One trailer is actually really, really loud
The prequel to John Krasinski's hushed alien franchise tip-toes into theaters June 28
John Krasinski’s first A Quiet Place film drops viewers into an eerie, muted world, as the few remaining survivors of an alien attack find ways to adapt to their newly silent lives over a year after speech became a death sentence. A Quiet Place: Day One shows us why there were so few survivors in the first place. The world, it turns out, is really, really loud. Who knew!
Stepping temporarily away from the Abbott family and their audio feedback defense, Day One expands the Quiet Place universe with a whole new spate of characters and a chilling new logline: “Discover why our world went quiet.” Emily Blunt will presumably be back for A Quiet Place: Part III, coming from Krasinski and Day One director Michael Sarnoski at an unspecified future date.
While the tinny speaker of one little space shuttle toy spelled certain death in A Quiet Place, the trailer for Day One smacks you in the face with a barrage of sound right from the beginning. Lupita Nyong’o’s character is living in New York City—probably the worst place she could possibly be for this flavor of alien invasion—with what is apparently the world’s best-behaved cat tucked snugly in her arms. (It’s clear why they chose a cat as the companion here—a dog would die almost instantly—but we’re still pretty damn worried about the cat’s chances of making it to the end of the movie.) She’s standing on a crowded street when the spider-monsters first touch down, and the aftermath goes pretty much as expected. Buh bye, Brooklyn Bridge!
While there’s nothing really new happening here, the conceit does give Sarnoski a really fun opportunity to play with sound in a way the earlier movies couldn’t. This clip is loud. Car horns beep, alarms blare, people scream, army jets drone overhead—you get the picture. In a world where silence is key, a little peace and quiet is exceptionally hard to earn.
Day One also stars Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou. We’ll find out if any of them (or exactly one cat) survive when the film hits theaters June 28.