A Quiet Place: Day One – Release date, trailer, cast & more

Cameron Frew
Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One

A Quiet Place: Day One will chronicle the beginnings of the end of the world – so, here’s its release date, trailer, cast, plot details, and more.

John Krasinski is best known as Jim, the smirking, shrugging prankster from The Office. However, in recent years he’s carved a new era in his career, becoming an action star in 13 Hours and Jack Ryan.

Most notably, he directed 2018’s A Quiet Place, the first movie of Paramount’s blockbuster horror franchise that’s grossed more than $630 million worldwide, with Part II also receiving critical acclaim.

A Quiet Place: Day One, a spinoff following a new cast as the aliens arrive on earth, is in the works – here’s what we know.

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A Quiet Place: Day One release date

A Quiet Place: Day One is due for release on June 28, 2024.

The spinoff was originally set for release in September 2023, but Paramount Pictures first moved it back in July, with the movie only having to compete with Disney’s The Magician’s Elephant and an unspecified wide release from Universal Pictures. Paramount then moved from its next release date of March 8, 2024, in line with a wider studio shake-up.

As for A Quiet Place Part III, it’s due to hit cinemas sometime in 2025, with Krasinski returning to direct and Emily Blunt set to star once again. It’s believed to be the final installment of the trilogy, but this hasn’t been confirmed.

A Quiet Place: Day One trailer

You can check out the first nail-biting trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One below:

It opens on scenes from the first two movies, before rewinding to “Day 1” in New York City, when the monstrous aliens crash-landed and immediately began preying on humanity.

“Discover why our world went quiet,” the tagline reads, with the trailer teasing terrifying scenes of city-wide carnage as our leads fight to survive.

A Quiet Place: Day One cast – Who’s in it?

A Quiet Place Day One has tapped two big hitters for its cast: Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn, the beloved star of Stranger Things Season 4.

Nyong’o will play Sam, a “woman who’s on a day trip to New York when the monsters arrive”, while Quinn plays Eric, a stranger with whom she’s forced to team up.

Alex Wolff is also set to star, while Djimon Hounsou reprises his role from Part II as the “Man on the Island.”

“This notion of a quiet New York is one that will arrest many. 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,” Nyong’o told EW.

She also compared the dynamics between Sam and Eric to the family in A Quiet Place. “When you have a family, there is an innate expectation that they will want to stick together, she explained.

“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.”

A Quiet Place: Day One will be written and directed by Pig’s Michael Sarnoski. Midnight Special and Mud director Jeff Nichols was originally tapped for the project, but he exited its development in October last year.

A Quiet Place: Day One plot

A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel that takes place on Day 1 of the alien invasion in New York.

Quinn explained: “It’s more of a [character] drama than anything. 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.”

During an earlier appearance on the Empire podcast, Krasinski spoke about the origin of the monsters and how the world reacts when they’re first unleashed. “They are absolutely aliens. They’re from another planet,” he said.

“Where I developed the idea of them and what I wanted them to look like was most alien movies are about takeovers, agendas, they’re a thinking alien creature, and for me this idea of a predator, this idea of a parasite, this idea of something that is introduced into an ecosystem [was interesting].

“I remember a terrible joke that I said was it would be – it’s disgusting and disturbing, but it’s true – it would be like releasing wolves into a daycare center. That’s how the world responds.”

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Cameron is Deputy TV and Movies Editor at Dexerto. He's an action movie aficionado, '80s obsessive, Oscars enthusiast, and a staunch Scot. He earned a First-Class Honours Degree in Multimedia Journalism from Glasgow Caledonian University, accredited by the NCTJ and BJTC. He began his career at UNILAD, starting as a Junior Journalist and becoming Entertainment Editor prior to joining Dexerto. You can contact him at cameron.frew@dexerto.com.