I wasnt sure if that was going to be the selling point or the breaking point, says Krasinski.
John Krasinskihad a kernel of an idea that would blossom into the story forA Quiet Place Part II.
I still love you."
Evelyn (Emily Blunt) braves the unknown in “A Quiet Place Part II.”.Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures
Funny enough, Blunt saw the scene as a selling point to do the sequel.
“Then it became very apparent that we’d be idiots not to do it.”
What the opening sequence does is it grounds [the film].
It also is that nostalgic memory of how life was the all-American town.
It re-centers you to look at what this family was before this happened.
That was always really interesting to me.”
(Watch the clip above.)
The production took over the town of Akron in northern Buffalo, N.Y. “It was just a happy day, almost like an alternate reality,” she adds.
“And then, of course, there’s the invasion and the town gets completely destroyed.”
She hadn’t practiced for it much, but everyone around her had marching orders.
“They had choreographed everything down to a fine art if anything went wrong,” Blunt explains.
He wanted to do something similar and shoot it in a single take.
So, when it came time to shoot it, that stuff was done in a day.
[The whole sequence] just wrapped in about two weeks."
With strong early box-office numbers for Thursday preview screenings, it looks like fans are already satisfied.
