Nurses run in the hospital and fighter jets fly over New York City as skyscrapers come crashing down and people run frantically for safety in the first trailer of the horror spin-off.
- Feb 8, 2024
AceShowbiz - Paramount Pictures has given first-look footage at "A Quiet Place: Day One". Making its way out online on Wednesday, February 7, it opens with a nod to the previous two films in the franchise by featuring scenes from "A Quiet Place" and "A Quiet Place Part II" starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt.
The upcoming movie serves as a spin-off prequel that takes fans back to the first day of the alien invasion. It mostly follows Lupita Nyong'o's character's Sam, who is described as a woman on a day trip to New York City when the monsters arrive.
The trailer shows people's first reactions to the alien invasion. People are scrambling for safety, nurses are running in the hospital and fighter jets are flying over NYC as skyscrapers come crashing down.
Sam, who tries to survive with a cat she carries around, is seen meeting various people on the way, including Joseph Quinn's Eric and Djimon Hounsou's character, who previously appeared in "Part II". "Discover why our world went quiet," read a tagline in the video.
Plot details are still kept under wraps. In a new interview with EW, Nyong'o reveals the trepidation that she realized when filming the movie. "This notion of a quiet New York is one that will arrest many," she shares. "It's an impossible thing to imagine.... When you live there, you block out all the sound quite naturally. You just forget to hear the sound. I realized how hard it would be to survive in a world that required you to be silent in that particular city."
She then compares the spin-off to the previous two films, which focus on the Abbott family, "When you have a family, there is an innate expectation that they will want to stick together," referring to Lee (Krasinski), Evelyn (Blunt), Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe). She adds, "We don't have that in this film. We have these disparate individuals who collide into each other's lives, and it is at a very pivotal time for the world. How do they negotiate survival together? What we get is really interesting - and even surprising - chemistry in the characters that meet each other along the way."
Of how she changed after shooting with a cat for the movie, the "Black Panther" star divulges, "I was afraid of cats when I started this movie. By the end of the movie, I was crying leaving that cat. Now I am definitely a cat mom. I have my cat's fur all over me, and I think of it as a symbol of affection, which I never imagined I would."
Meanwhile, Quinn sees "Day One" as more of an escape movie rather than a survival story. "It's more of a [character] drama than anything," he explains. "The script is obviously set in the world that we know, but it's very much a film about these two characters who are lost and trying to negotiate their fates. There are also some wonderful other characters in the film who Sam encounters, but the bulk of it is Eric and Sam in their mutual acceptance of this bleak, more quiet, new reality."
Krasinski, who directed the first two films, passed the torch to Michael Sarnoski for the spin-off. "The franchise is in the more than capable hands of director Michael Sarnoski, even though after seeing that [footage] I gotta be honest, I'm a little jealous," Krasinski told an audience at CinemaCon 2023. "I gave my baby away, but he did a great job."
Also starring Alex Wolff, "A Quiet Place: Day One" is scheduled to be released in U.S. theaters on June 28.
