50 Fun Facts About A Quiet Place

Who directed A Quiet Place (2018)?

It was his third film as director but his first for a major studio.

Who plays Evelyn Abbott, the mother?

She read the script on a flight and said the story captured her deepest fear of being unable to protect her children.

What sense do the film's alien creatures lack?

Their acute hearing is the whole premise; the family lays sand paths to muffle every step.

How do the Abbotts mainly communicate without making noise?

Krasinski said Simmonds's signing looked more cinematic than speaking the words would have.

Which two screenwriters conceived the story while in college?

They began the screenplay in January 2016 and always wanted Emily Blunt for the mother.

Which franchise did a Paramount executive suggest the film could cross over with?

Paramount ultimately embraced the final script as a stand-alone story.

Who plays Regan, the Abbotts' deaf daughter?

Krasinski insisted on casting a deaf actress rather than a hearing one pretending.

Who plays Marcus Abbott?

Krasinski spotted him in The Night Manager and checked an early cut of Suburbicon before casting.

In which New York town is the Abbott farm set?

The real shoot spread over Dutchess and Ulster counties in the Hudson Valley.

Which toy leads to Beau's death early in the film?

Lee removes the batteries, but Beau quietly takes them back.

What does Evelyn step on while heading to the basement in labour?

She also drops a photo frame, and the noise brings a creature into the house.

What colour do the house lights turn when Evelyn flips the warning switch?

Lee sees the lights from outside and sends Marcus to set off fireworks as a distraction.

What does Evelyn set off to distract the alien in the basement?

She then escapes upstairs and ends up hiding behind falling water in the barn.

Marcus falls into what structure while signalling with his sister?

A piece of roof falls in after him and becomes the raft that keeps him above the grain.

What ultimately hurts the creatures and exposes their vulnerable flesh?

Regan's malfunctioning hearing aid makes the noise; placed on a microphone, it amplifies the effect.

What does Lee sign to Regan just before he sacrifices himself?

Simmonds suggested adding 'always' so the line made up for their earlier argument.

What weapon does Evelyn use to kill the creature in the final scene?

The last shot is her racking it as a pack of aliens approaches the house.

Who performed motion capture for the creatures?

He also directed, co-wrote and starred, earning the 'triple-threat' label from critics.

Which effects house built the creatures?

Early designs had rhinoceros-like horns, dropped for not being scary enough.

What was the first film's production budget?

It grossed about $341 million worldwide, with an estimated net profit of $93 million.

At which festival did A Quiet Place premiere in March 2018?

It opened the festival, chosen from 2,458 submissions.

How many tons of corn did the production buy from local farmers?

Filming took just 36 days across two upstate New York counties.

Which composer scored the first film?

The score earned a Golden Globe nomination; Krasinski wanted it so the film did not feel like a silence experiment.

Which animal behaviour inspired the creatures' clicking sounds?

Supervising sound editors Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn wove feedback into the story as well.

Which Bong Joon-ho film did the writers cite as a significant influence?

Krasinski himself cited Jaws and the social-commentary horror of Don't Breathe and Get Out.

Which deaf mentor was hired to teach sign language to the cast?

Simmonds, who grew up signing, also coached her co-stars so the family looked fluent.

Roughly how much did A Quiet Place gross in its US opening weekend?

It was Paramount's biggest opening since Star Trek Beyond in 2016.

Which prize did the actress playing Evelyn win for the first film?

The film itself was Oscar-nominated for Best Sound Editing.

Which crossing on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail appears in the film?

The sequel returned to the same New Paltz trail to shoot on the bridge again.

Who plays Emmett in A Quiet Place Part II?

Brian Tyree Henry was cast first but left over scheduling and was replaced by Djimon Hounsou in another role.

Part II opens with the Abbotts attending what event?

The flashback shows the first day of the invasion as a meteor-like object falls.

Which song repeats on the radio as a signal in Part II?

Regan reads it as a message from survivors on the nearby islands.

Where does Emmett shelter the Abbotts in Part II?

The real location was an abandoned Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna.

What key weakness of the creatures is revealed at the marina?

Only two of twelve National Guard evacuation boats reached the islands.

What injures Marcus's leg early in Part II?

His scream draws an alien that Regan and Evelyn kill.

Who plays the leader of the island colony in Part II?

He also plays Henri in Day One, making him the only actor in all three films besides the Abbotts' cast.

Part II was mainly filmed in and around which city?

Locations included Akron, Olcott, Dunkirk, Lackawanna and Buffalo.

Which crossing was shut for 13 hours to film a Part II scene?

The production spent over $10 million in upstate New York.

Who was cinematographer on Part II?

She kept the first film's 35 mm look and matched her lenses to Christensen's.

When was Part II finally released in US theatres after pandemic delays?

It hit Paramount+ 45 days later, and its opening was the biggest of the pandemic to that point.

How many days after its theatrical release did Part II reach Paramount+?

The shortened window led Krasinski, Blunt and Bay to seek compensation for lost box-office pay.

Who wrote and directed A Quiet Place: Day One?

Krasinski approached him after seeing his debut Pig; Nichols had dropped out with a completed script.

Who stars as Sam in Day One?

Her character is a terminally ill hospice patient on a group outing to Manhattan.

What is the name of Sam's cat in Day One?

Two cats, Nico and Schnitzel, shared the role; executives had wanted CGI.

Which Stranger Things actor plays Eric, the law student in Day One?

He follows the cat back to Sam after escaping a flooded subway.

Sam is determined to eat pizza from which Harlem restaurant before she dies?

The real pizzeria's exterior was rebuilt on a backlot from extensive photographs.

Day One is set in New York but was mostly shot in which city?

Four Manhattan blocks were built on the Warner Bros. backlot at Leavesden.

Which Nina Simone song does Sam play aloud in Day One's final scene?

She unplugs her headphones and lets it blare, accepting her death.

Which 2006 film did Sarnoski cite as an inspiration for Day One's look?

Pig's cinematographer Pat Scola shot it, and Alexis Grapsas composed the score.

Which 2024 video game is set in the series' world?

It was developed by Stormind Games and published by Saber Interactive in October 2024.