A Quiet Place: Day One Reportedly Very Different to First Film

The director of A Quiet Place: Day One has said it diverges from its predecessor in a major way.

Michael Sarnoski tells Entertainment Weekly 2021's A Quiet Place Part II was “definitely a jumping-off point for a lot of things. Then we took it into our own direction to explore.”

The sci-fi sequel stars Lupita Nyong'o as Sam who, along with her cat Frodo, manages to pick the worst possible day for a trip to New York - a day when aliens crash land and start attacking people.

"I can say that Alex Wolff (Hereditary) plays a friend to Lupita's character who goes through some craziness that they have to deal with together," Sarnoski continues. "The biggest thing for me was that the first two films very much circle around a family and these people that have established relationships. I wanted to explore a little more of what it would look like for strangers to have to go through the end of the world together."

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A Quiet Place: Day One is an origin story detailing the start of the invasion. Saying that, one character is confirmed to return: Djimon Hounsou. In A Quiet Place Part II we meet him hiding out on a remote island.

While we never got his name or backstory, A Quiet Place: Day One will reveal both when it releases June 28.