The upcoming post-apocalypse prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One, has added Hereditary star Alex Wolff to proceedings. According to Above the Line’s Jeff Sneider, Wolff will reunite with Pig director Michael Sarnoski for the horror movie spinoff, with Wolff joining the likes of Lupita Nyong’o and Stranger Things breakout Joseph Quinn in A Quiet Place: Day One.
Best known for roles in the likes of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level, Wolff is no stranger to the genre thanks to starring in both director Ari Aster’s critically acclaimed creep-fest Hereditary, and the thriller, Old, from divisive director M. Night Shyamalan. The actor has also had prominent roles in Pig, where he starred opposite Nicolas Cage, and made his directing debut in 2019 with the well-received coming-of-age drama The Cat and the Moon.
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Aside from battling alien invaders in A Quiet Place: Day One, Wolff is also part of the stellar ensemble cast that makes up Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Oppenheimer, which will follow Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.”
Not much has yet been revealed regarding the direction of A Quiet Place: Day One, but based on the title, it is likely to pick up on the day that the blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing arrive. Wolff joins Academy Award winner and Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o and Stranger Things actor Joseph Quinn in the prequel, which will no doubt follow a group of survivors as they attempt to survive the chaos on the first day of the apocalypse.
Directed by Michael Sarnoski, with a script by Jeff Nichols and Sarnoski and based on an original story by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place: Day One is scheduled to be released theatrically on March 8, 2024.
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A Quiet Place Has Proven to be a Massive Horror Success
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Released in 2018 and directed by The Office star John Krasinski, the first A Quiet Place revolves around a father and a mother who struggle to survive and rear their children in a post-apocalyptic world that is now inhabited by blind monsters who can hear, well, everything. A Quiet Place proved to be a huge critical and financial hit upon release, with critics praising the genuine terror and well-realized world crafted by Krasinski.
A Quiet Place soon spawned a sequel in 2020s, A Quiet Place Part II, which follows directly from the first outing and finds Emily Blunt’s mother dealing with the fallout of the first movie’s finale. Thus, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
The sequel was similarly met with rave reviews, with the silent world of A Quiet Place now all set to expand even further into not only the prequel but also a sequel, A Quiet Place Part III, which is currently scheduled for release sometime in 2025.
