The Springtown Truss Bridge on the\u00a0Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, used as a location in the film<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Production took place from May to November 2017 in\u00a0Dutchess\u00a0and\u00a0Ulster\u00a0counties in\u00a0upstate New York. Filmmakers spent their budget locally, including a purchase of\u00a020 tons<\/span>\u00a0of corn, which they hired local farmers to grow. Some filming took place on a soundstage in the town of\u00a0Pawling\u00a0in Dutchess County, as well as on-location in the county’s city of\u00a0Beacon.[13]<\/sup>\u00a0Filming also took place on the\u00a0Wallkill Valley Rail Trail\u00a0in\u00a0New Paltz\u00a0of Ulster County, using the Springtown Truss Bridge.[14]<\/sup>\u00a0Outside Dutchess and Ulster counties, filming took place on Main Street in\u00a0Little Falls\u00a0in\u00a0Herkimer County, New York.[15]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Sound and music<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nDuring filming, the crew avoided making noise so\u00a0diegetic synchronized sounds\u00a0(e.g., the sound of rolling dice on a game board) could be recorded; the sounds were amplified in post-production. A traditional musical score was also added, which Krasinski justified in wanting audiences to remain familiar with watching a mainstream film, and not feel like part of a “silence experiment.”[16]<\/sup><\/p>\nSupervising sound editors\u00a0Erik Aadahl\u00a0and\u00a0Ethan Van der Ryn\u00a0worked on\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>. For scenes from the perspective of the deaf daughter, sound was removed to put greater focus on the visual. They also advised on organizing shots to reflect the creatures’ perspective, like showing them noticing a sound, then showing what was causing the sound. Composer\u00a0Marco Beltrami\u00a0provided the sound editors music to work with in a way that would not interfere with the sound design throughout the film.[17]<\/sup><\/p>\nIn the film, creatures are blind and communicate through clicking sounds. Aadahl and Van der Ryn said they were inspired by\u00a0animal echolocation, such as that employed by bats. The sound of feedback, normally avoided by sound editors, was woven into the story at a loudness level that would not bother audiences too much.[18]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Use of sign language<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nThe characters communicate in\u00a0American Sign Language\u00a0(ASL) to avoid making sound, so the filmmakers hired deaf mentor Douglas Ridloff to teach ASL to the actors and to be available to make corrections. They also hired an ASL interpreter for deaf actress Simmonds, so that spoken and signed language could be interpreted back and forth on set.[19]<\/sup>\u00a0Simmonds grew up with ASL, and she helped teach her fellow actors to sign.[20]<\/sup>\u00a0She said, “In the movie, we’ve been signing together for years and years. So it should look fluent.”[21]<\/sup>\u00a0She observed that each character’s use of sign language reflected his or her motivations: the father had short and brief signs which showed his survival mentality, while the mother had more expressive signs as part of wanting her children to experience more than survival.[22]<\/sup>\u00a0Krasinski said that Simmonds’s character used “signing that’s very defiant, it’s very teenage defiant.”[23]<\/sup><\/p>\nSimmonds said that she suggested for the daughter to rebel rather than cower during a sign-language fight with her father. She also said that the script originally had the father sign “I love you” to his daughter at the end of the film, but she suggested for him to follow with “I’ve always loved you” to make up for their arguing earlier in the film.[24]<\/sup><\/p>\nProducers\u00a0Andrew Form\u00a0and\u00a0Bradley Fuller\u00a0said that they initially planned not to provide on-screen subtitles for sign-language dialogue while providing only “context clues,” but they realized that subtitles were necessary for the scene in which the deaf daughter and her hearing father argue about the modified hearing aid. They subsequently added subtitles for all sign-language dialogue in the film.[25]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Creature design<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nProduction designer\u00a0Jeffrey Beecroft\u00a0headed the creature design, and\u00a0Industrial Light & Magic\u00a0created the creatures, led by visual effects supervisor\u00a0Scott Farrar. The director wanted the creatures to look like they had evolved to no longer need eyes, and to be “somewhat humanoid” in nature. Farrar said the initial creature design showed them with rhinoceros-like horns out of their faces, later redesigned.\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/i>\u00a0reported, “The team immediately set about pulling references; prehistoric fish, black snakes, and bats, particularly their movement patterns. Inspiration was also drawn from bog people: cadavers that have been mummified in peat, turning the skin black and giving it a sagging, leathery look.”[26]<\/sup>\u00a0Krasinski provided motion-capture for the creatures.[8]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Marketing<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\nParamount Pictures\u00a0released the first trailer for\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>\u00a0in November 2017.[27]<\/sup>\u00a0It aired a 30-second commercial for the film during the US football championship\u00a0Super Bowl LII\u00a0on February 4, 2018.[28]<\/sup>\u00a0Of the seven trailers that aired during the playoff,\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Red Sparrow<\/i>\u00a0were shown during the pregame and had the lowest views and social conversations.\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>\u00a0had 149,000 views on\u00a0YouTube, 275,000 views on\u00a0Facebook, and 2,900 social conversations.[29]<\/sup>[30]<\/sup>\u00a0On February 12, 2018, Krasinski appeared on\u00a0The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/i>\u00a0to present the full trailer for\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>.[31]<\/sup>\u00a0The studio spent an estimated $86 million on prints and advertisements for the film.[32]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Release<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/span>Premiere<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nA Quiet Place<\/i>\u00a0premiered at the\u00a0South by Southwest\u00a0Film Festival as the opening-night film on\u00a0March 9<\/span>, 2018.[33]<\/sup>\u00a0It was selected from 2,458 submissions,[34]<\/sup>\u00a0and earned “raves” from critics, according to\u00a0IndieWire<\/i>.[35]<\/sup>\u00a0Following its premiere, the film experienced social media growth to under\u00a052 million<\/span>\u00a0views across multiple platforms, outpacing\u00a0Get Out<\/i>\u00a0(2017), which had\u00a046.9 million<\/span>\u00a0views.[9]<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/span>Box office forecast<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nThe Tracking Board<\/i>\u00a0reported on\u00a0March 14<\/span>, “The stellar reviews out of SXSW, coupled with the fact that there isn’t anything like it in the marketplace, should help it stand out among its bigger-budget competition.”[36]<\/sup>\u00a0Deadline Hollywood<\/i>\u00a0said on\u00a0March 15<\/span>\u00a0that the film was projected to gross around $20 million in its opening weekend.[9]<\/sup>\u00a0Variety<\/i>\u00a0reported on\u00a0March 27<\/span>\u00a0that the film “is tracking to open between”\u00a0$16 million<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0$30 million<\/span>,[37]<\/sup>\u00a0which reached a basement of low-$20 million by the week of its release.[38]<\/sup><\/p>\nBoxOffice<\/i>\u00a0initially estimated on\u00a0February 9<\/span>, 2018, that\u00a0A Quiet Place<\/i>\u00a0would gross\u00a0$17 million<\/span>\u00a0in its opening weekend, and that it would gross a total of\u00a0$60 million<\/span>\u00a0in the United States.[39]<\/sup>\u00a0By\u00a0