A Quiet Place Sequel Is Being Developed

A Quiet Place, which cost around $17 million to make before marketing costs, has earned more than $213 million worldwide so far at the box office. So what do you think backing studio Paramount is doing? Developing a sequel, of course!

Studio chairman Jim Gianopulos took to the stage at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce that his company is at work on the sequel already. The next big question, of course, is whether director/writer/star John Krasinski will be back (in some capacity) for the sequel to the thriller about humans dealing with a post-apocalyptic world where creatures that hunt via sound have been picking off the population. And, course, there are no details about the setting for this follow-up story – could it track other characters coping with the ruined world and nasty predators? All that will be revealed in due time.

In other Paramount news, JJ Abrams revealed that Overlord, the World War II movie that finds US soldiers discovering a Nazi lab that uses supernatural forces to try gruesome experiments will not, as has been rumoured, be part of the Cloverfield universe. What it will be, however will – in US cinema terms – his company Bad Robot's first R-rated movie and is, in Abrams' words, "bat shit crazy". The footage shown of the event lived up to that, with horrifying imagery all over the place.

Yet Cloverfield fans will be happy to hear that another film set in that world is in the works, and unlike The Cloverfield Paradox, will screen in cinemas. Overlord, meanwhile, will be out in the UK on 25 October.