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Lupita Nyong'o "started ['A Quiet Place: Day One'] terrified of cats, and she didn’t even want to touch them," director Michael Sarnoski tells IndieWire. "She really forced herself to get close to those cats. Now, she has a cat of her own.”

'A Quiet Place: Day One' writer/director Michael Sarnoski tells IndieWire about the prequel Jeff Nichols abandoned, and the film's feline star.

John Krasinski, who helmed the first two films, couldn’t take the spinoff “ A Quiet Place: Day One ” on due to scheduling conflicts; then, “ The Bikeriders ” director Jeff Nichols was set to write and direct the prequel. Krasinski (here on as a producer) had seen Sarnoski’s 2021 debut feature, the mystical revenge drama “Pig” starring Nicolas Cage as a truffle hunter with damage, and felt the young, Yale-trained filmmaker from Milwaukee was the man for the job. As for how our window into the nature of the creatures’ physiognomy deepens this time around, especially when “A Quiet Place: Day One” shows us how they subsist on human flesh and lurk in packs, Sarnoski said, “I liked in the early movies that they didn’t overshow them.

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