In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to grab our amplifiers and make sure we have plenty of oxygen as we review “A Quiet Place Part II”…
Following the massive, worldwide success of “A Quiet Place” in 2018 — a film that grossed over $340 million at the global box office — Paramount immediately began looking into a possible sequel.
The only problem was original star, director and co-writer John Krasinski wasn’t interested in creating a franchise but rather a one-off film, which he already made. The original screenwriters also bowed out of the project, opting to focus on creating new material rather than mining a sequel out of the first film.
Eventually, Krasinski started brainstorming ideas for a possible sequel focused around a very simple concept — he wanted to make Millicent Simmons the hero of a second film. By August 2018, Krasinski was already hammering out a script and he finished his first draft for the movie in only three and a half weeks.
A few months later, he was officially hired on to return as the director and the rest of the cast from the first film also agreed to return including his wife, Emily Blunt, who would take over the lead role responsibilities in the sequel.
The film centered around the Abbott family leaving their home after family patriarch Lee was killed during the events in the first movie. What would they find in the outside world ravaged by these sound-seeking creatures?
That’s what Krasinski aimed to find out.
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to grab our amplifiers and make sure we have plenty of oxygen as we review “A Quiet Place Part II”…
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