When the family goes into town for supplies, Beau finds a toy space shuttle, which Lee makes him leave alone because it would make too much noise. They must take special precautions in order to avoid making noise, such as making sand paths through the forest to avoid stepping on crunching leaves, and using American Sign Language when communicating. The Abbott family: mother Evelyn, father Lee, daughter Regan (who is deaf), and sons Marcus and Beau, lives on an isolated farm in the middle of the forest. Sightless aliens, known as the Death Angels, with sharp hearing take over the planet and kill most of the human population. The film was nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Blunt, which she won.Ī sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, was released on May 28, 2021, with Krasinski returning to the director's chair and the main cast also returning with the addition of Cillian Murphy. The film was described as a 'smart, wickedly frightening good time' by Rotten Tomatoes, and chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2018. It grossed more than $350 million worldwide and received critical acclaim. Filming took place in upstate New York from May to November 2017.Ī Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018, and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. Krasinski and Blunt were cast in the lead roles in May 2017.

In July 2016, Krasinski read their spec script and was hired to direct and rewrite the script in March the following year. The plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother ( Emily Blunt) who struggle to survive and rear their children ( Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing.īeck and Woods began developing the story while in college. A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck.

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