Black Panther: Wakanda and 12 Years a Slave star Lupita Nyong’o is joining another cinematic universe, the A Quiet Place universe. Per Variety, the Academy Award-winning actor is in final negotiations to star in A Quiet Place: Day One, the next installment of the Paramount horror franchise.
The third film in the A Quiet Place franchise will star Nyong’o in an undisclosed role, with story details currently being kept under wraps. The original idea for the third installment is from John Krasinksi, who directed and co-starred in the first two films alongside his wife Emily Blunt. However, the short-lived Reed Richards star and director won’t be returning for Day One, with Pig director Michael Sarnoski helming the new film, set for release on March 8, 2024.
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The first two films took place on a post-apocalyptic Earth that has been taken over by blind monsters who use a form of echolocation to hunt human prey. In 2018’s A Quiet Place, Krasinski and Blunt play Lee and Evelyn Abbott, the parents of two young kids, named Marcus and Regan, played by Noah Jupe and Millicent Simmonds, struggling to rear their children in a world overrun by monsters. After Kraskiniski’s character died trying to save Regan in the first film, the actor-director returned for a cameo role in the franchise’s second installment in 2020, A Quiet Place II, in which began with a prologue before the monsters first attacked. According to A.V. Club, while a cameo is “not out of the question,” Blunt and Krasinki likely won’t be reprising their roles in the spinoff.
Day One is not meant to continue the story of Evelyn and her remaining family members. It is rumored to be an entirely new story set in the same universe.
Lupita Nyong’o Returning as Nakia in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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LupitaNyong’o will next be seen Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Black Panther. The actor will reprise her role of Nakia, the Wakandian spy and former lover of T’Challa. She was originally set to star in Lady in the Lake but exited the project in May, as well as in The Woman King but exited that project in October.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller will produce A Quiet Place: Day One via Platinum Dunes alongside Krasinski and his Sunday Night banner with partner, Allyson Seeger, who serves as executive producer.
