![]() I would want to do that film whether it’s a sequel or not. “I think that’s when I started to realize, ‘Is my snobbery turning into idiocy?’” she adds. So when he saw how arrested I was by it, it became pretty apparent that he was going to write it. He always knows when I’m for real or not. But he started to pitch it and I just felt like my eyes got wider and wider. “He goes, ‘I have an idea for how I would open it if I did it, but I’m not saying I would,’” Blunt recalls. The couple knew that the studio was planning to move forward with a sequel whether or not they were involved but were firmly against revisiting the story until Krasinski came up with an idea for “Part II’s” opening sequence while in Kauai with Blunt when she was in production for “Jungle Cruise.” “I think that was why we had our heels dug in at the idea of one we just weren’t entertaining the thought of it.” “I don’t believe that everything should be sequel-ized,” Blunt said in a separate interview back in March 2020. ![]() “So I think that idea of tiptoeing out there into the big bad world is probably resonating with people more so now.”ĭespite the success of the first film, the couple had been ready to walk away from the burgeoning “Quiet Place” franchise. “There are themes that run through it of keeping to yourself and not extending your hand to your neighbor,” Blunt says. “I think it was pretty wild to see what we were dealing with so clearly in this movie thematically was happening very physically in the world only months later,” says Krasinski. One bright spot about the delay is that the film’s themes of isolation and the value of community likely will feel much more resonant now. “But the truth is, as bizarre as that was, it doesn’t hold a candle to all the other things that everyone else has been going through so we just took it in stride.” “It’s certainly a bizarre circumstance to go through all of the motions to come out with a movie and then to have to put it back in the box,” Krasinski says. It was always sort of what he wanted for it.” And I think John always felt quite sure that he’d like it to be one of the first movies back in theaters. ![]() “But we just had to ride it out and wait for the right moment. “It’s weird that it was almost about to come out and then it didn’t,” says Blunt. It’s been nearly that long since “A Quiet Place” had its world premiere in early March 2020, just over a week before stay-at-home orders began to be issued across the country.
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