A QUIET PLACE Writers Considered Making The Film a Part of The CLOVERFIELD Universe
John Krasinski's amazing horror film A Quiet Place was released this weekend and if you haven't seen it yet, you really need to get out to the theater and check it out! It's such an incredibly well-made and scary movie.
It turns out that at one point during the development, A Quiet Place could have been a part of J.J. Abrams Cloverfield universe. I'm actually very happy that this didn't happen. Not every freakin' movie that Paramount Pictures releases has to be connected to Cloverfield!
During a recent interview with /Film, Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, the film's writers said that they briefly toyed with the idea of making the film a part of the Cloverfield franchise.
"That was one of those things that, I guess it crossed our mind and we had spoken to our representatives about that possibility. It was weird timing, though, because when we were writing the script, 10 Cloverfield Lane was at Paramount. We were actually talking to an executive there about this film, and it felt from pitch form that there might be crossover, but when we finally took the final script in to Paramount, they saw it as a totally different movie.
"What was really incredible about the process that we feel very grateful for is the studio embraced this weird movie with no dialogue with open arms. They never thought about branding it as a Cloverfield film, I think in part because conceptually it was able to stand on its own.'
The movie totally does stand on its own, it doesn't need that Cloverfield name to make it a good movie or help market it. It's doing perfectly fine on its own. They went on to talk about another factor that influenced their decision to keep A Quiet Place a standalone film:
"And our biggest fear was – we love Bad Robot, we love the people over there, and obviously J.J. [Abrams] is certainly a hero to us – but one of our biggest fears was this getting swept up into some kind of franchise or repurposed for something like that.
"The reason I say ‘biggest fear’ – we love the Cloverfield movies. They’re excellent. It’s just that as filmgoers, we crave new and original ideas."
And that's what A Quiet Place is! It's a fresh new original horror film. This movie is already a success. I just hope that Paramount doesn't end up taking it and making sequel after sequel. This is a perfect standalone horror film. But, as you know, studios like to take little successful films like this and force them into a franchise.