When the World Went Quiet

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American pre apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski. Made from a screenplay co-written by Krasinski, Scott Beck, and Bryan Woods based on a story Beck and Woods conceived, it tells the story of a mother (Emily Blunt) and father (Krasinski) who struggle to survive and raise their children (Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing. Beck and Woods developed the concept for the story while in college and began writing the screenplay in January 2016. They told Platinum Dunes producers that they wanted Blunt for the role of the mother. In July 2016, Krasinski read their script for the role of the father. Krasinski was announced as director, co-writer, and co-star with Blunt in March 2017. Filming took place in upstate New York from May to November 2017. A Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018 and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018 by Paramount Pictures. It grossed more than $340 million worldwide and received critical acclaim. A Quiet Place was chosen by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2018.; The film received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Blunt won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. It is the first film in the A Quiet Place universe. Its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, was released in 2020.