John Krasinski Will Rewrite, Direct, and Star in A QUIET PLACE With Emily Blunt

John Krasinski has signed on to direct, rewrite, and star in the supernatural thriller A Quiet Place. His wife, Emily Blunt, will star alongside him. Variety reports that the couple usually keeps a wall between their private and professional lives, but they both loved the script for this one so much that they couldn’t pass it up. The project is based on a spec script by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods that Paramount loved so much they not only bought this one, they gave Beck and Woods a write-direct deal on their next project. We do not know anything about the plot at this point, but apparently Krasinski chose it after saying he wanted to do something similar to The Purge or Ouija, so I guess it is something kind of like The Purge and/or Ouija.

This will be Krasinski’s third time behind the camera. He previously directed an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, which was interesting but kind of felt like student work, and The Hollars, which I thought was mediocre, quite frankly. Although it was more watchable than Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, so it seems like he is improving. (You can read our review of The Hollars here.) 

Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes is producing this one, which makes it Krasinski’s third collaboration with the director and his production company. They previously worked together on 13 Hours, and Bay is producing the Amazon series Jack Ryan, which Krasinski is also set to star in. I guess this means Krasinski and Bay are in love and probably going to have a million babies. Or they just like working together. You decide.

I am calling myself cautiously optimistic about this one. If Blunt thinks the script is great I’m interested, because she has pretty good taste when she picks projects, but I haven’t loved anything her husband has directed, so I’ll just have to wait and see, I guess.

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