

The director said Paramount got a lot of pitches for the sequel but it declined many of them because “they felt a little more franchise-y. Paramount is moving forward with a sequel which Krasinski is writing. “I didn’t think our movie would be so commercially accepted because the only other time I’ve seen someone do a movie with no spoken dialogue is Paul Thomas Anderson at the beginning of “There Will Be Blood.” That first 12 to 14 minutes where Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t speak was a huge touchstone for me.”īetween its theatrical release and awards season campaign, “A Quiet Place” has now been in the cultural conversation for almost a year. “Even on silent, there was so much communication happening,” Krasinski said. Cillian Murphy was so taken by Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place that he wrote Krasinski a flattering email, which he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to send. “One hundred percent, and that sounds super pretentious,” the actor-director said when asked if the silent cuts could work as complete films. The scene had no dialogues, not even a tiny moan (for the most part). With a completely silent cut of “A Quiet Place” edited, Krasinski realized the film could work on its own without any sound whatsoever. In this weeks chapter of Scene Stealer, we revisit the terrifying but terrific birth-giving sequence featured in Emily Blunt and John Krasinskis 2018 blockbuster horror, A Quiet Place. John Krasinski Refused to Film ‘The Office’ Scene Where Jim Cheats on Pam, Forcing Creator to Cut It
