The trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One, due out June 28, features Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou, and an adorable white-and-black cat who are all fighting to survive a global catastrophe. Like the previous Quiet Place films, Day One presents a postapocalyptic world where making the slightest sound summons bloodthirsty alien creatures hellbent on destruction. The twist this time is that it focuses solely on “the day the world went silent,” as the movie’s official synopsis puts it, beginning with shots of a noisy New York City.
In the trailer, Nyong’o is walking down the street with her feline, enjoying a din of car horns and sirens, when streamers of debris shoot through the skyscrapers, and suddenly, the alien creatures feast on all the sound. The clip depicts chaos and mass destruction, and later, in a scene where Nyong’o, covered in chalk, wakes up and coughs, Hounsou (from A Quiet Place Part II) quickly shushes her. And then, of course, there’s more chaos and mass destruction.
John Krasinski, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the first two Quiet Place movies, collaborated on the story with Day One screenwriter Michael Sarnoski (who wrote and directed Pig). Krasinksi has a cameo in the trailer, but given that it’s in a flashback (or flash-forward, depending on how you look at it) scene, it’s unclear how big, if any, of a role he’ll play in this installment of the series, which also features actor Alex Wolff.
In 2018, Krasinski explained some of the impetus behind making a somewhat silent film. “We live in a world now where you see all these movies, like Marvel movies, and there’s so much sound going on, so many explosions,” he told The New York Times. “I love those movies, but there’s something about all that noise that assaults you, in a way. We thought, what if you pulled it all back? Would that make it feel just as disconcerting and just as uncomfortable and tense?”
