A Quiet Place: Day One Trailer Offers a Terrifying Look at How It All Began

You won’t be able to shut up about it.

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Feb 7, 2024 3:40 pm

The first trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One is here, giving viewers a terrifying teaser of how it all began and why the world turned silent.

The trailer puts the “sh” in shocking as it will likely render some people speechless with its explosive action and pin-drop silent scenes. The footage opens with glimpses from 2018’s A Quiet Place and its sequel as it turns the clock back to “Day One” when the first apocalyptic alien invasion breaks out in New York City.

The prequel spin-off to the John Krasinski/Emily Blunt horror series centers around a new set of characters, played by Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Denis O’Hare, while A Quiet Place Part II star Djimon Hounsou reprises his mysterious character, previously referred to as “Man on Island.”

The movie’s debut poster features Nyong’o, portraying a character called Sam, described by EW as “a woman who’s on a day trip to New York City when the monsters arrive” and is “thrown together” with Quinn’s character Eric as they semi-reluctantly agree to navigate and survive the city together, with her cat Frodo in tow.

“We have these disparate individuals who collide into each other’s lives, and it is at a very pivotal time for the world,” Nyong’o said of the film’s forged relationships. “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 is the third overall installment of the post-apocalyptic horror franchise, and it opens in theaters on June 28, putting it ahead of A Quiet Place Part III, which, according to EW, has suffered a development delay after being previously announced with a scheduled release date in 2025.

Michael Sarnoski wrote and directed A Quiet Place: Day One, from an original story he thought up with John Krasinski based on characters created by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck. The film is executive produced by Allyson Seeger and Vicki Dee Rock, alongside producers Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, and Krasinski.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on X @AdeleAnkers.