The first-look image from A Quiet Place 2 confirms there won't be a time jump between the original movie and the sequel. Last year's A Quiet Place was a surprise smash-hit and firmly established actor-director John Krasinski as a force to be reckoned with behind the camera. The Office veteran starred with his real-life wife Emily Blunt in the film as Lee and Evelyn Abbott, a pair of parents desperately trying to protect their kids (Millicent Simmons and Noah Jupe) in a world overrun by blind, yet extremely sound-sensitive and extremely dangerous extraterrestrial monsters.
A Quiet Place was originally designed to function as a standalone movie, but will continue in 2020 with a sequel formally titled A Quiet Place: Part II. Krasinski is once again serving as the writer and director on the film, but will leave the acting to his onscreen family following his character's noble sacrifice towards the end of A Quiet Place. Those who saw Black Christmas in theaters last weekend got their first look at A Quiet Place 2 in the form of a short teaser hinting the sequel picks up immediately after the original movie. That's since been confirmed by the first official photo.
Total Film has unveiled a first-look image from A Quiet Place 2 that shows Evelyn and her three children (including her newborn baby) walking along a trail through a forest in the sequel. The outlet has further confirmed the movie will pick up right after A Quiet Place, which makes sense since the teaser showed Evelyn's foot still freshly bandaged from when she stepped on a nail in the original film (indicating little time had passed). Speaking to Total Film, Krasinski explained how A Quiet Place 2 builds on its predecessor, particularly its theme of surviving vs. living or "thriving", as he put it.
“I love the idea of the first one, that Emily and I as characters were all about surviving versus the thriving. All [my character] wanted to do was survive. And [her character] says, ‘That’s not enough. We have to thrive. We have to let these kids be whole human beings’. And after I’m gone, I’m loving seeing Emily really battle with that - that maybe survival was the way to go. And maybe this idea of thriving was too dangerous.”
It's good to hear A Quiet Place 2 will not only expand upon one of its predecessor's core elements, but do so in a way that (based on Krasinski's comments) won't offer a pat solution to the Abbottts' situation. Instead, Blunt, Simmons, and Jupe will get to step into the spotlight even further than they did in A Quiet Place and explore how their characters deal with the loss of their patriarch, in-between battling the creatures that've taken hold of the planet. They won't be alone either, with Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou costarring as two fellow survivors the Abbotts encounter in the sequel. Hopefully, the addition of more people will shake-up the Abbotts' dynamic in surprising and exciting ways.
As for the lack of time jump: it will be interesting to see if A Quiet Place 2 opens before, after, or during the final scene in A Quiet Place. The first movie ended with Evelyn and her kids discovering how to defeat the monsters (creating audio feedback, which is painful to them and causes them to involuntarily expose the flesh beneath their armored skin), only to attract the attention of additional creatures in the process. It's possible the sequel will open with the fight that ensued and could end up being more action-packed overall, making it the Aliens to A Quiet Place's suspense-driven Alien, so to speak. Krasinski has teased A Quiet Place 2 won't take the typical sequel approach, so hopefully the inevitable full-length trailer will shed more light on what audiences can expect, instead.
Source: Total Film
