A Quiet Place has been making a big noise with cinema audiences, but it turns out that it might have arrived in a completely different form.
The original concept for the horror movie was created by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods almost a decade ago, before John Krasinski came on board to work on the script and eventually bring it to the screen.
But during those early developments days, it had crossed their minds that it could be developed into a Cloverfield sequel, given that the movies are released by the same company of Paramount.
"That was one of those things that, I guess it crossed our mind and we had spoken to our representatives about that possibility. It was weird timing, though, because when we were writing the script, 10 Cloverfield Lane was at Paramount," Beck told Slash Film.
"We were actually talking to an executive there about this film, and it felt from pitch form that there might be crossover, but when we finally took the final script in to Paramount, they saw it as a totally different movie."
Beck added that Paramount had "never thought about branding it as a Cloverfield film" and Woods expanded on why it was a great thing for A Quiet Place to stand on its own, despite being a fan of the Cloverfield movies.
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"Our dream was always to drop something different into the marketplace, so we feel grateful that Paramount embraced the movie as its own thing," he enthused.
A Quiet Place is in cinemas now.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
