Having broken out with a star-making performance battling Vecna in Stranger Things 4, Joseph Quinn is set to tackle monsters once again with the news that he is in talks to join Lupita Nyong’o in A Quiet Place: Day One.
Deadline report that Quinn is in negotiations for a leading role opposite Lupita Nyong’o in the spin-off to John Krasinski’s blockbuster horror franchise. Pig director Michael Sarnoski will work from an idea pitched by Krasinski that will broaden the post-apocalyptic world introduced in the first two movies.
Paramount hope this film will go some way to setting up a potential Quiet Place universe that the studio can cash in on for years to come, with talk of a videogame on the apocalyptic horizon, and John Krasinski currently developing a third film due for release in 2025.
It comes as little surprise considering the popularity of the first two films in the series. A Quiet Place was a huge success when it opened in 2018, earning critical raves and $340M at the global box-office. Its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II was one of the first films to be delayed by the pandemic, but despite multiple delays and an eventual release during a time in which audiences were still reluctant to return to the multiplex, it still made an impressive $300M worldwide.
Before breaking out as Eddie Munson, the guitar playing hero of Stranger Things, Quinn was best known for appearing in an episode of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Julius Avery’s WWII monster-mash Overlord. A Quiet Place: Day One is set to hit cinemas on March 8, 2024.
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