The 'Black Panther: Wakanda' actress plays a woman named Sam, who must team up with strangers to survive an alien invasion when the monsters attack New York City.
- May 10, 2024
AceShowbiz - Lupita Nyong'o runs for her dear life in a new trailer for "A Quiet Place: Day One". Making its way out online on Thursday, May 9, three months after the first trailer, the video teases to explain "why our world went quiet" as it's depicted in the franchise.
The new trailer still follows Nyong'o's character, a woman named Sam, who has been described as a woman on a day trip to New York City when the monsters arrive. Amid the alien invasion, she plots her escape from the city.
Sam, who brings along her cat, first teams up with Joseph Quinn's Eric and meets more strangers along the way. Among those who appear in the trailer are Djimon Hounsou and Alex Wolff. Hounsou reprises his role from "A Quiet Place Part II", while Wolff is cast as someone named Reuben.
Plot details are still kept under wraps. In a previous interview with EW, Nyong'o revealed the trepidation that she realized when filming the movie. "This notion of a quiet New York is one that will arrest many," she shared. "It's an impossible thing to imagine.... When you live there, you block out all the sound quite naturally. You just forget to hear the sound. I realized how hard it would be to survive in a world that required you to be silent in that particular city."
She then compared the spin-off to the previous two films, which focus on the Abbott family, "When you have a family, there is an innate expectation that they will want to stick together," referring to Lee (John Krasinski), Evelyn (Emily Blunt), Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe). She added, "We don't have that in this film. We have these disparate individuals who collide into each other's lives, and it is at a very pivotal time for the world. How do they negotiate survival together? What we get is really interesting - and even surprising - chemistry in the characters that meet each other along the way."
Krasinski, who directed the first two films, passed the torch to Michael Sarnoski for the spin-off. "The franchise is in the more than capable hands of director Michael Sarnoski, even though after seeing that [footage] I gotta be honest, I'm a little jealous," Krasinski told an audience at CinemaCon 2023. "I gave my baby away, but he did a great job."
Also starring Eliane Umuhire in an undisclosed role, the apocalyptic horror film is set to invade U.S. theaters on June 28.
