For a movie about the importance of keeping very, very silent, A Quiet Place is making a huge noise at the global box office on its opening weekend.
The indie screamer only cost $ 17million to make and has already turned a whopping profit in its first two days on release.
A Quiet Place easily took the top spot at the US box office with a massive $ 50miliion and added another $ 21million around the world.
It is a spectacular result and means talk is already turning to the sequel.
The movie was a labour of love for husband and wife stars Blunt and John Krasinski, who also directed.
However it was actually nurtured for over ten years by screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, ever since they first conceived the idea back at college.
Once the movie finally made it into production, it became a taught and pared-down intimate movie, which was a result of the desire to tell a truly claustrophic story but also reflected their budgetary constrictions.
The jubilant pair revealed that has all changed now.
Once the decision was made to focus on just one family of four terrorised by carniverous aliens in an isolated setting, the screenwriting pair realised they should hold back some of their most exciting, broader and more expensive ideas.
Beck and Woods told Movie Web: “We have so many scary ideas that just didn’t even make it into the final script, let alone the final movie, but just written, we would love to see this sequence. Some sequences that were just quite frankly too expensive to even do in this movie.”
But will Blunt be back?
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Beck added: “I just don’t know what the title would be. A Quieter Place?
“I think at this point there’s multiple universes that it could go in to be completely honest. I think you could continue down one path that’s very obvious, or you could spin off into a completely unexpected direction. Which is certainly always interesting for us. The uncharted territory of filmmaking is always where you find the best inspiration.”
Thrilling as it sounds to expand the concept it sounds more like they are tinking of investigating new scenarios with different protagonists.
A spoonful of sugar will probably help future Mary Poppins Emily Blunt cope with the news…
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