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A QUIET PLACE PART II

WHEN SPOKE to writer-director-star and monster-wrangler John Krasinski for our spoiler special podcast last April, he ruminated on the unseen scale of the world he’d created. Although he didn’t direct the film with sequels in mind, such narrative potential excited him. “Whatlove is that other people have to deal with this,” he said of the monster problem. If the Abbott family were “living through it poorly”, he thought, “are other people living through it well? Is there some other way to survive? It’s interesting.”

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