“A Quiet Place: Day One” Trailer Unleashes the Alien Scourge on an Unsuspecting NYC

May 9, 2024

A brand new trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has finally arrived, teasing out a bit more of the story behind this prequel to John Krasinski’s 2018 original A Quiet Place.

We’ve already seen what the world was like on day 472 of the reign of the sound-hunting aliens in Krasinski’s 2018 original A Quiet Place—now, we finally get to see what the world was right as the alien invasion was underway. Not that we haven’t seen glimpses before; in Krasinski’s killer follow-up Part II (2020), we saw flashbacks of what it was like when the aliens first arrived. The new film, directed by Pig helmer Michael Sarnoski and starring Lupita Nyong’o, will flesh out the horrific first day of the attack.

This second trailer for Day One opens with Nyong’o’s Sam being scolded for bringing a cat into a bodega, a brief little snippet of humdrum life before everything goes insane. Soon, the first wave of alien ships crashlands in the city and New York is quickly facing a threat unlike it’s ever seen. Day One will show us those murderous alien creatures hunting down people with a speed and ferocity that we all remember well from the first two films, only now, the humans we’re seeing arent’ hardened survivors; they’re terrified and confused and utterly unaware of the hunting methodology of the blind predators.

The promise of Day One is that might explain why these monsters arrived on Earth in the first place. And Day One isn’t the only film in the franchise currently in the works—there’s a third installment of the main arc of the series, set after the events in Part II, that will show us how humanity might ultimately survive.

Joining Nyong’o in the cast are Djimon Hounsou (reprising his role from Part II), Alex Wolff, and Joseph Quinn.

Check out the trailer below. A Quiet Place: Day One hits theaters on June 28.