A QUIET PLACE PART II

Journey into fear…

DIRECTOR John Krasinski STARRING Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou

In 2018, John Krasinski’s high-concept horror movie (in a post-apocalyptic world, creatures hunt humans by sound!) took a whopping $340m from a $17m budget. Its world fired the public’s imagination, and there was still so much more to explore: are there other survivors beyond the farm of the Abbott family, and if so, how are they going about it?

“If the first [movie] was intimate, almost like a homegrown western, this is more of a travelling western,” says Krasinski, who compares the “epic” feel of A Quiet Place Part II to films like There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

Intriguingly, the action will begin just seconds after the first movie finished on such a cliffhanger, and will pitch the Abbott family – mum Evelyn (Kransinki’s real-life wife, Emily Blunt) and kids Regan and Marcus (Millicent

Simmonds, Noah Jupe) – out into the big wide world, with their danger increased by the death of dad Lee (Kransinski) at the end of the first movie, and by the less-than-quiet presence of Evelyn’s new-born baby. On their travels they will meets strangers (Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou) who might be friend or foe, and the story will also do a Godfather: Part II in going backwards as well as forwards – expect to see Day 1 of the devastation.

“It’s something perhaps a lot of us around the world are thinking about right now – can you still extend your hand to your neighbour when you’re in the midst of a harrowing environment?” says Blunt of the film’s theme of community, while Krasinski says that if the first movie was about the fears of parenting, this is about that moment when you have to let your children go. “That’s what growing up is all about,” he says, vowing this super-sequel will offer a journey as emotional as it is terrifying. ETA I 23 APRIL 2021