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A Quiet Place Could Have Been a Cloverfield Movie
In an interview with /Film, Beck and Woods revealed there was talk about
turning the horror thriller into a Cloverfield movie. This was around the
same time the second Cloverfield film, 10 Cloverfield Lane, was in
development at Paramount, the same studio behind A Quiet Place.
"I guess it crossed our mind and we had spoken to our representatives about
that possibility," Beck said. "It was weird timing, though, because when we
were writing the script, 10 Cloverfield Lane was at Paramount."
However, Paramount believed in A Quiet Place as an original, standalone
project. "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 said.
The screenwriters were relieved by this decision. Even though Beck and Woods
are fans of the Cloverfield movies, they didn't want their film to be swept
up into a franchise. Instead, the duo were more interested in developing a
brand new project.
"It's just that as filmgoers, we crave new and original ideas, and we feel
like so much of what’s out there is IP," Woods said. "It's comic books, it's
remakes, it's sequels. We show up to all of them, we enjoy those movies too,
but our dream was always to drop something different into the marketplace, so
we feel grateful that Paramount embraced the movie as its own thing."
It appears all worked out just fine for A Quiet Place, as the thriller from
director-actor John Krasinski has received plenty of commercial and critical
success. In our review of the film, which had the second biggest domestic
opening of the year so far, we say A Quiet Place "delivers B-movie thrills
with legitimate chills."