There's no escaping New York in new A Quiet Place: Day One trailer
The film is an original story for the original series starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, although neither appear in this film
The latest trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has a lot more alien and, worryingly, a lot more cat. Thankfully, this seems like a pretty docile, meow-free cat, so he’ll probably do fine in the muted world the characters in this franchise are forced to occupy. The people, on the other hand, aren’t doing so hot.
Day One—which stars Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou—takes fans of the original John Krasinski series back to the first day of this hushed apocalypse. We still don’t know much about the movie’s actual plot—the official synopsis is just “experience the day the world went quiet”—but we do know that a bunch of sound-hungry aliens crashing to earth and going on an immediate killing spree was a pretty chaotic and very loud event.
We do get a little more info this time around. Nyong’o’s and Quinn’s characters watch the spider-like extraterrestrials crash down to Earth from the busy streets of Manhattan, a loud urban hub they obviously try to escape ASAP. Unfortunately for them and the island’s other 1.7 million residents, the army completely bombs out the bridges, trapping them and the aliens together on a pretty small strip of land. (Whether it’s intentional or not, this is also a pretty good critique of the government’s rush to over-militarize its response to any conflict—the strategy clearly doesn’t work, as the threat has gone global by the time we meet Blunt and Krasinski’s characters.)
This means we get a lot of vague, The Day After Tomorrow–esque shots of ruined New York City locations, but it’s hard to tell—even as a New Yorker—what some of them are supposed to be. One might be the infamous photo block in Dumbo that overlooks the Manhattan Bride. Another kind of looks like the Westfield Mall. One could be the Catholic church that Sabrina Carpenter scandalized with her “Feather” video? We’ll likely know a lot more when the film actually drops, but that does deserve to be memorialized as an apocalypse-worthy landmark.
Also, poor Joseph Quinn seems to be right back in the Upside Down. While these aliens operate differently than the demogorgons of Stranger Things, their faces are almost exactly the same. We’ll see if he can make it out of this one alive.
A Quiet Place: Day One premieres June 28 in theaters.