Michael Sarnoski On Filling John Krasinski's Shoes In A Quiet Place Day One: 'Only Parameter Was...'

A Quiet Place has consistently kept audiences on the edge of their seats, and much of that success is owed to John Krasinski’s vision. As Krasinski steps down from the director’s chair for the third installment, A Quiet Place: Day One, the franchise welcomes a new director, Michael Sarnoski, who brings a fresh perspective to the series.

Sarnoski shares his experience of joining the project and says, “The only parameter I was given was that it had to be set in New York City. To be honest, at first I wasn’t sure I wanted to do an invasion story set in Manhattan. That seems to be an entire genre of its own. So I knew that if I was going to do it, it would have to be completely different from anything that came before. I gave John a one-minute pitch about a woman who comes to New York on a quest for her favorite pizza just as the world is ending. John’s response was, ‘Yeah! Let’s do it.’”

Sarnoski met with Krasinski periodically to review each draft, but says for the most part he was given complete creative freedom. He adds, “If I needed clarification on something, I could ask John. Otherwise, he just let me play with what I wanted to do.”

On the film and the creatures, he said, “They’re superfast and attack very quickly, and it makes you ask questions about where all the bodies are going, how the creatures eat, whether they have their own family units, and how they relate to each other,” he says. “In this film, we start to learn more about them.”

With A Quiet Place: Day One experience the day the world went quiet. Directed by Michael Sarnoski, this installment takes place before the events of the previous two films. A woman named Sam must survive an invasion in New York City by bloodthirsty alien creatures with ultrasonic sound hearing.