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After a meeting with Paramount, Fuller said, “we had no resistance in terms of making the film. But what got Krasinski the job was his enthusiasm in conversations with producers and studio executives. “There was nothing we could point to, to say that John Krasinski can direct a thriller,” Fuller said. If done correctly, Krasinski said, the film could be a testament to “parenthood and the strength of the family.” But at that point, the entries on his directorial résumé were a few episodes of “The Office” and two little-seen features: a 2009 adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men” and the 2016 family comedy-drama “The Hollars.” (Woods and Beck shared screenwriting credit with Krasinski on “A Quiet Place” and are credited for characters in “Part II.” Through a representative, they declined to comment for this article.) To their surprise, Krasinski not only wanted the role - he also wanted to rewrite the script and direct the movie.

While Form and Fuller sought Krasinski for the title role in “Jack Ryan,” they also pitched him a draft of “A Quiet Place,” by the screenwriters Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, hoping he’d play the father. Though Murphy despaired for humanity, Blunt told him not to lose faith because. The actors began their scene: Blunt, now a hardened survivor of the alien invasion, had entered the hiding place of a disheveled holdout played by the “Peaky Blinders” star Cillian Murphy. Standing on a cavernous sound stage built to look like the subterranean chambers of an abandoned steel mill, he called for silence and the instructions reverberated in rapid whispers as crew members conveyed them to the farthest reaches of the set. Nearly two years ago, in August 2019, Krasinski was directing his cast on the set of “A Quiet Place Part II” in Buffalo. He added, “I don’t think anyone’s brain was prepared for what was really about to happen.”

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Speaking in a video call from Budapest, where he recently resumed filming the Amazon action series “Jack Ryan,” he told me that he spent the past year hovering “somewhere between optimism and naïveté” as he waited for “A Quiet Place Part II” to finally arrive.

Its release will also be a significant test of “A Quiet Place” as a franchise for Paramount, a studio that could really use one, and of Krasinski himself, an affable actor-director who hadn’t made a mark as a commercial filmmaker until he made the original movie.

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