Now that he’s made the transition from “the guy who played Jim on The Office” to “filmmaker behind a hit horror surprise,” there’s an important lesson that John Krasinski needs to learn: If you’re a white man who has done one successful thing in Hollywood, you have to keep doing that thing over and over again until you either die or fail a dozen times. A Quiet Place was huge, but despite that, he seemed to be under the impression last year that there was a chance Hollywood would allow him to make one popular movie and then stop without running the idea into the ground by making a bunch of sequels. Then, once it became clear that a sequel was an inevitability, he apparently thought that Paramount Pictures would just let him move on without making the sequel himself. Krasinski knows Michael Bay, does he think Bay actually wanted to make all of those Transformers sequels and not that the studio was forcing him?
Anyway, Krasinski caved eventually and agreed to write the A Quiet Place sequel, teasing back in October that it would be some kind of exploration of the world instead of a straight continuation about the same characters. Now, though, he has told Empire that he might not direct A Quiet Place 2, simply saying “we’ll see” in regards to his possible return. Again, Michael Bay made so many Transformers movies, and every time he tried to convince people that he wouldn’t make another one. Krasinski isn’t some singular auteur with a completely unique style, so it’s not like some other person couldn’t direct A Quiet Place 2, but Krasinski is a famous man who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the original movie. They won’t let him out of this without a fight.
A Quiet Place 2, whether Krasinski directs it or not, will be in theaters on May 15, 2020.
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He wasn’t sure that he’d write it. Then he wrote it. Now he isn’t sure that he’ll direct it.
I sense a pattern here.
Oh, yeah, the money. The finger thing means the money.
“It’s about the fckin’ money!”
“I am not Yoda. Yeah, I’m Yoda.
I will not train you. Ok, I’ll train you.
You’re not ready to be a Jedi. You’re a Jedi”
Proof that a beard can turn a cute guy into an absolute hottie.
I only see a max of two sequels. You can’t go anywhere after The Quietest Place
Stay Quiet… with a Vengeance2 Quiet 2 PlacidShut Up Already!
The Surprisingly Loud Place
This subverted my expectations.
A Quieter Place?
The Quietus Place
A Silent Place
Turd Box?
The Quiet Bird Box
B Quiet Place has a certain ring to it!
shhh
I’m holding out for a Promised Land sequel.
A Quiet Place Too: Mount Shush-more
If he does maybe he should go learn just how noisy deaf people actually are.
Yeah, that was the one big complaint my family had with the movie, too. Deaf people are surprisingly loud, which actually makes sense when you think about it.
As soon as i heard the plot i was just “Wait? What?”. If this had happened when i was living with my parents at home my big brother who was born deaf would have given us away with loud noises day one of the invasion.
Hot take: A Quiet Place is just a shit Don’t Breathe.
Hey, now! To be fair, this is one case where it’s less about race than it is about gender. The line should be “If you’re a man who has done one successful thing in Hollywood, you have to keep doing that thing over and over again until you either die or fail a dozen times.”
For reference, see M. Night Shyamalan.
“If you’re a white man who has done one successful thing in Hollywood……..”I just don’t understand bringing race up here. The guy has also done more than one successful thing in Hollywood, on both sides of the camera.This sentence could only be written by a white man who has done zero successful things in showbiz.
Haters gonna hate.
Will the second one be conservative, too?