For instance, that first flashback scene he pitched to Blunt is partially an excuse to have Lee appear again in the movie, but it also underscores the feeling of an idyllic past life robbed by a global tragedy. The approach also allowed Krasinski to more fully explore the totality of what the Abbotts lost. I think once an idea is that good, it clings to you and it’s very hard to shake.” That image of a candle in the dark, and Regan becoming as brave (and stubborn) as her old man, is what gnawed at Krasinski. I hope they’re this positive, I hope they’re this courageous, and they can go into the dark and light a candle.” I realized when that promise is broken, that’s what growing up is… So if the first one is a love letter to my kids, then this is a weird letter to my kids about the dream that I have for them. “That’s a promise that I think all parents know will be broken. “The first one is about the promise you make as a parent, that if you stick with me, I can keep you safe forever,” Kransinski says. The idea that possessed Krasinski, to the point where, on a Hawaiian beach he persuaded Blunt to return, was always about Simmonds’s Regan: a resilient young woman who, like the actor portraying her, is hearing impaired. But the oldest of them, Regan (Millicent Simmonds), has never been one to follow her parents’ path. Alone in the world, matriarch Evelyn (Blunt) has a newborn – who they must keep quiet at all times – in her arms and two young children to protect. Lee Abbott (Krasinski) is dead, and his family is left to wander the wilderness after strange aliens who lack sight (but have horrifyingly adept hearing) eviscerated their farm. Titled A Quiet Place Part II-Blunt’s suggestion, since it feels as much like the next chapter as a standalone-the new film begins in earnest mere hours after the events of the last movie. Afterward, Blunt could only concede, “So I’m going to be in the movie.” “And I was like, ‘Cool, I’m not going to be in the movie.’ And he was like, ‘Oh no, I know that.’” He then revealed the first scene is a flashback of the Abbott family before the events of A Quiet Place, enjoying a greater moment of peace than we’ve ever seen with them. “I remember him pitching me the opening,” she says. One which he couldn’t shake until the day he shared it with Blunt. “There was that feeling of wanting to preserve the first one.” In the early days of the earlier film’s success, she said no, and Krasinski told Paramount Pictures to court other writers… and yet, that kernel of a vision persisted for Krasinski. “I was the one who was even more steadfast about not coming back,” Blunt says. But as Blunt told us when we sat down a year (and lifetime) ago in New York’s Dolby SoHo, once Krasinski gets a new idea, it’s the damnedest thing. In fact, it was initially shared by her husband, writer-director-actor John Krasinski, who, like his wife, was skeptical about the prospect of making a follow-up, even in our modern era of shared universes. But back then, in the lush jungles of Hawaii and filming opposite Dwayne Johnson, she was a million miles from the hushed hell endured by the Abbott family in A Quiet Place, which was just becoming the surprise horror hit of 2018. Emily Blunt was in a different place three years ago.
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