By the following August, Krasinski was working on the screenplay, and in February 2019, he was confirmed as returning to direct. Paramount Pictures began the development of a sequel in April 2018, following the box-office success of the first film. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe reprise their roles from the first film, while Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join the cast Krasinski returns from the first film in a new flashback sequence. The film was written, produced and directed by John Krasinski for Paramount Pictures. A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic horror film and the sequel to 2018's A Quiet Place, following the family from the first film as they continue to navigate and survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing.
