Plot: Experience the day the world went quiet. When NYC comes under attack from an alien invasion, a woman and other survivors try to find a way to safety. They soon learn that they must remain absolutely silent as the mysterious creatures are drawn to the slightest sound.
Taglines: Hear how it all began
Stay quiet. Stay alive
Cast
Joseph Quinn - Eric
Lupita Nyong'o - Samira
Alex Wolff - Reuben
Djimon Hounsou - Henri
Alfie Todd - Max
Elaine Umuhire - Zena
Writer/director: Michael Sernoski (Pig)
Rated PG-13 for terror and violent content/bloody images. (99 min)
The Quiet Place movies are really full of suspense and intrigue. A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place: Part II focused on a small set of characters and ultimately became big hits in theaters. In the beginning of Part II, we get a little peek of the beginning of the alien invasion to the planet.
And, with A Quiet Place: Day One, this movie gives us an even bigger look at the beginnings of the alien outbreak and a new setting/characters.
The Quiet Place prequel delivers an intense and gripping experience from beginning to end. This prequel does strike a good balance between action and suspense. There are quite a few action bits with the aliens causing chaos throughout the city.
One of the really intriguing aspects of this movie is exploring the aliens origins and how the world was before their invasion. Even though it doesn't go into too much detail about the aliens origin, the movie does leave room for speculation and possibly could be revealed in further movies.
Overall, A Quiet Place: Day One is a decent prequel to the series and it shows that there could be numerous installments that features different angles of the invasion. And, yes, A Quiet Place: Part III is still coming up!
Here are some tidbits for A Quiet Place: Day One!
Lupita Nyong'o explained the most fun and exciting part of the movie was finding out how to communicate messages without words, before making even the smallest gesture of body language could change the context of the entire scene, so each scene required much internalizing.
The large majority of the scenes set in New York City were filmed in London. The film's crew built a rough replica of NYC's Chinatown vicinity on a London-area backlot for filming most of its early scenes, and many of the scenes set in the NYC Subway were filmed in various now-closed London Underground stations and tubes. The one major scene filmed on location is outside one of the film's few named locations: Patsy's Pizzeria in Harlem. The rest is mostly second unit & VFX work.
Despite several big-name Hollywood filmmakers being considered to direct, indie filmmaker Michael Sarnoski was chosen as director based on his strong direction of the film Pig (2021).
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