John Krasinski is working on ‘A Quiet Place’ spinoff

The post-apocalyptic world of hungry monsters and silent humans just trying to survive is growing a little bigger. John Krasinski, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt, has revealed he’s now working on a spinoff.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the untitled project is based on a top-secret idea that Krasinski came up with while directing the film and its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II. This time around Krasinski won’t direct or write, but he is on board to produce. Meanwhile, Jeff Nichols, the filmmaker behind flicks like Mud and Loving, has been hired to write the script and direct.The news comes as the world awaits the theatrical release of A Quiet Place Part II, which was originally scheduled to hit theatres in March 2020 but has since been delayed until next April as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The original movie followed a couple and their children as they avoided detection by blind monsters with super hearing who were basically looking to make a snack out of any humans around.While the details behind this potential spinoff remain top-secret, THR reports that it could come as early as 2022. Meanwhile, because it’s being touted as a spinoff and not another sequel, the project could feature a whole new set of characters that live in the same world as the one in the first two films.When the original film was released it earned more than $340 million worldwide against a working budget of less than $20 million, as per THR. It also earned an Oscar nomination for best sound editing, but it lost out that year to Bohemian Rhapsody. Blunt also won the 2019 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her work in the movie.“People who hate genre movies loved this movie. People who had never seen a horror movie before loved this movie. It has been universal,” Blunt said in an early 2019 interview with Deadline, in discussing the film and how it has resonated with fans. “The afterlife that it has had, it’s not something either of us really know how to contend with, but it’s wonderful.”“It was never built to launch sequels, which we all knew, and the studio knew too,” added Krasinski about A Quiet Place Part II. “But also, I’m a realist. I know that when you have a success like this, everyone wants to make another one. I told them to go find another filmmaker and writer, and they said, ‘But don’t you have an idea?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I have a tiny idea,’ so they said, ‘OK, while we’re talking to other people, keep thinking about it.’ They basically mind-tricked me into wanting to write it.”Sounds like maybe Krasinski was mind-tricked again. And fans everywhere are very much here for it.[video_embed id='1918161']Before you go: Emily Blunt doesn't think Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively would survive in 'A Quiet Place'[/video_embed]