Emily Blunt Teases a Third Film in A QUIET PLACE Horror Franchise

A Quiet Place Part II hits theaters this weekend. It’s a movie I’ve been looking forward to seeing for a long time, but fans have had to wait because of the pandemic. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve heard that it’s a great sequel that lives up to the hype.

I assumed that this sequel wouldn’t be the last film in the franchise. This is a horror franchise that a studio like Paramount Pictures would want to milk for everything that they can. The studio doesn’t have a lot of successful franchises, and it’s not hard to think that they will want to keep this one rolling.

So, it’s not surprising to learn that the star of the film, Emily Blunt, is saying that her husband, writer and director John Krasinski, already has ideas for a third movie. During an interview with Collider, Blunt said, “He has a whole arc of ideas that could work. I think he just wanted to see how people responded to this one before he fully engaged his brain on the third one. But he has a couple of great ideas.”

When specifically asked if the sequel was designed as the second entry in a trilogy, the actress responded:

“Why not? I always said when we were approaching this one, I said, ‘I think you need to think of this not as a sequel, but this is chapter two. This is just a continuation.’ I think there was such an investment in this family, such mileage for expansion on this kind of extraordinary world, that this is the continuation. As this family have to venture out, the story ventures out, the world gets bigger. But I think I always felt he was still going to write something muscular and intimate and intense. I think there’s room.”

This isn’t the first time a third film in the franchise was talked about. Krasinski previously talked about the writing process and said that even though he had never imagined a sequel when writing the first movie, he did keep that door open in his mind when writing the second. Then, when he had Blunt read the script, she mentioned that it felt very much like the second part in a trilogy. He said:

“It’s interesting, I genuinely hadn’t thought about a second one when I was doing the first one. However, I really had these questions while I was doing it. I put the fires out in the distance in the first one, and I always thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if we got to explore where those fires lead to? Who’s on the other end of those fires?’ But I never thought that there would be a sequel. So then when I actually came around to writing the sequel, I started with the fires. And so this time, I think when my brain started wandering of questions of what would this mean later on, I started to write down notes in case I could prepare myself for a third one.”

So, Krasinski has definitely got plans for a third film, but before we get to that, the sequel needs to be released and we all need to go out and watch it!