Kenyan Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o is joining A Quiet Place universe. It is reported that Nyong’o is in the final negotiations to star in A Quiet Place: Day One, a spinoff of Paramount’s successful horror franchise A Quiet Place, alongside Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou (Gladiator), Alex Wolff (Pig) and Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story).
This is Nyong’o’s next biggest Hollywood project after dropping out of Apple series Lady in the Lake, starring and executive produced by Natalie Portman. The actress will soon be reprising her role as Nakia in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Marvel’s Black Panther.
A Quiet Place: Day One is an original idea of John Krasinski who directed and co-starred in A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place II with his wife Emily Blunt. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the two first films follow a family struggling to survive as they’re hunted by blind extraterrestrial monsters with an acute sense of hearing.
Krasinski will be co-producing A Quiet Place: Day One alongside A Quiet Place franchise producers Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. The film will be helmed by Pig’s director Michael Sarnoski and will premiere in March 2024.
