Cillian Murphy in talks to join Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place 2

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

A QUIET PLACE was quite the critical and commercial success, so naturally, a sequel was soon put into development. Emily Blunt will be reprising her role of Evelyn Abbott in the sequel, and it seems that Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) will be joining her.

Per THR, Cillian Murphy is in talks to join the cast of A QUIET PLACE 2, and while plot details are being kept under wraps at the moment, sources have said that Murphy will be playing "a man with mysterious intentions who joins the family unit." I like it, but will Murphy's character be friend or foe? Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe will also be back to reprise their roles of Regan and Marcus, the children of Blunt's character. John Krasinski will be stepping back into the director's chair once again, and he's previously teased that the film won't be the typical sequel. "Most sequels are about a villain returning or a hero returning, and you have to build this entire world around just the idea that I have a hero or a villain. That’s a lot, and I think that’s where a lot of sequels go wrong because as much as you love that hero or villain, the entire thing is fabricated just to make that person work," Krasinski said. "[With A QUIET PLACE 2], we have the world. So it’s actually the world that’s built, it’s the idea that the rest of the world is going through this exact same experience. Are there other people that have to survive like this? It’s that idea of living through the set of circumstances, not again in the same way obviously, but exploring it more. You only got to do it intimately for a small amount of time, so what happens next?" Krasinski continued:

That’s why I got really excited, because for me certainly the most fun I’ve ever had in my career as a writer was writing this, because I got to play in the most exciting world. It was actually Emily, of course, who articulated it better than me. She said the same thing, it was like, ‘No way, don’t do a second one,’ and then I pitched her my idea and she was like, ‘So you’re definitely doing that.’ She said, ‘But it’s not a sequel. It’s the second book in a series,’ she said, ‘It sounds [like] semantics but it’s true, it really is—you’re not doing anything that’s like, alright I’m gonna take all the things you love and just kinda repeat them but in a different way.’ It’s not A QUIETER PLACE, it’s sort of an exploration of getting to live in the circumstances, and that’s really fun.

Production is expected to begin this summer and A QUIET PLACE 2 will hit theaters on May 15, 2020.