July 6, 2024 • 5 mins
The world of 2018's A Quiet Place has been expanded out through the newly-released prequel.
A Quiet Place: Day One shows viewers how the film's world got to the near-apocalyptic point of the original- with plenty of additional worldbuilding.
Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall examines whether or not this is worth the watch.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks, EDB, Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Time Now and Steve Neill, editor at flixs dot co
dot and Z joins me good mor nay. I am
so excited that you were going to talk about Quiet
Place day one because I haven't seen it. I'd heard
very little about it. It's kind of just snuck onto
the screens. And I loved those the original two films.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes today as far as for anyone living under a
rock or a remote farmhouse without electricity, these are films
set after an alien invasion of the Earth. The aliens
hunt using sound, and people have survived by being very
very quiet. Sounds like a boring film, but two really
(00:51):
suspenseful thrillers so far. I was a little bit pessimistic
about this picture because it's a prequel to those films.
How we got to that day one?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And thank goodness, it's actually not reverse engineering and explaining
everything that led to the films that we already know.
It's not a big oh, here's what really happened. It's
just set in Manhattan on the day all these meteor
like projectiles hit Earth. And the hunt for humans and
(01:24):
other noisy life begins. It came from this planet and
they're up to this. It's just it's just.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Still got that mysterious element to us.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, and sort of fused with the healthy dose of
sort of nine to eleven New York dust clouds and
chaos and panic makes it feel already grounded and in
the hands of director Michael Saranosky. He's made one film before,
which was the excellent Nicholas Cage starring Pig from a
(01:56):
couple of years ago film, Yeah, which is a striking drama,
and there's real echoes of that in this film because
being set in Manhattan, the survivors the start of this film,
the Peter Niongo is stuck in New York. She really
just wants a slice of pizza, but the world's falling
(02:16):
apart around her. Yeah, I know. But her situation is
a bit different to everyone else because she's in the
very last stages of a terminal illness, and so her
reaction to everyone's fight for survivals a bit different. Her
priorities are a bit different. Why would you put yourself
through hell to only have a few more days.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Left if you haven't put yourself through quite place. Yet
could you actually watch this one without of seeing those?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah? I think you could because the kind of I guess,
like the rules of this film universe are very very simple.
Don't make any noise. What I've liked about seeing these
films and cinemas sort of knowing what the premise is.
There's a bit longer of a hold for black at
the start of these films than you'd normally get. And
you're very aware of all your chippy packet, rustling seats, squirming,
(03:05):
tickle in the throat, half a fellow movie goers and yourself.
It's a reminder I had a bag of a bag
of lollies and I took a very patient approach to
you to that open.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, okay, don't you have a little SnapLock bagging, But
you can tip them into and then when you're in
the theater, they won't make you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Sure take a lot of curries to media screenings doesn't
happen anymore. The reason there hasn't been a lot of
noise about this no pun intended, is that there wasn't
a media screening for this film. Typically, that's what happens
when studios bury a film and decide that it's better
off of the public. Actually, don't hear about it before
it opens? Really boring reason. The release of this was
(03:43):
tied to Tribeca Film Festival and they didn't want to
have any screenings before it premiered. Big mistake because people
like me don't get to say, you know what, it's
not going to sit the world on fire. But it's
a pretty decent movie we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'd be talking about it too. Brad Petter's returned to
the British Grand Prix to continue filming his Formula one movie.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What a cool titles film? Has f one? Straight out
no mucking about. He's at Silverstone this weekend. They've been
filming Is it a Dooco? It's a drama And for
the past year he's been going around Grand Prix's and
making this film that's like a big budget film set
in the real world of Formula One. He's driving for
(04:24):
a fictional team in this film. Probably a little bit
all day to be a Formula one driver. What's the
reaction time required? But more than hey, look anyway. Lewis
Hamilton's a co producer on this film. It's being made
with all the participation of the Formula One teams and associations.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Sounds like someone went out one night, came up, had
had a few drinks with someone in form one, came
up with a great idea, and when you know what,
I just love to follow Formula one for a year.
Let's make a film.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I just love the smell of petrol, so I just
want to be around petrol as much as I can.
This has a really good director attached, Joseph Kazinski, who
directed Top Gun Maverick. So, no, this is way around
this kind of high performance machinery. I reckon it'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think so too.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We won't see this until July or so of next year.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Always good.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I believe there might be a sneak peek of this,
like a kind of teaser playing as part of the
British Grand Prix coverage this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
This weekend, I shall keep an eye out for it.
Thank you so much, Steve. Thank you for all the updates.
We'll catch up next.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Week for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks, EDB, Entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Time Now and Steve Neill, editor at flixs dot co
dot and Z joins me good mor nay. I am
so excited that you were going to talk about Quiet
Place day one because I haven't seen it. I'd heard
very little about it. It's kind of just snuck onto
the screens. And I loved those the original two films.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes today as far as for anyone living under a
rock or a remote farmhouse without electricity, these are films
set after an alien invasion of the Earth. The aliens
hunt using sound, and people have survived by being very
very quiet. Sounds like a boring film, but two really
(00:51):
suspenseful thrillers so far. I was a little bit pessimistic
about this picture because it's a prequel to those films.
How we got to that day one?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
And thank goodness, it's actually not reverse engineering and explaining
everything that led to the films that we already know.
It's not a big oh, here's what really happened. It's
just set in Manhattan on the day all these meteor
like projectiles hit Earth. And the hunt for humans and
(01:24):
other noisy life begins. It came from this planet and
they're up to this. It's just it's just.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Still got that mysterious element to us.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, and sort of fused with the healthy dose of
sort of nine to eleven New York dust clouds and
chaos and panic makes it feel already grounded and in
the hands of director Michael Saranosky. He's made one film before,
which was the excellent Nicholas Cage starring Pig from a
(01:56):
couple of years ago film, Yeah, which is a striking drama,
and there's real echoes of that in this film because
being set in Manhattan, the survivors the start of this film,
the Peter Niongo is stuck in New York. She really
just wants a slice of pizza, but the world's falling
(02:16):
apart around her. Yeah, I know. But her situation is
a bit different to everyone else because she's in the
very last stages of a terminal illness, and so her
reaction to everyone's fight for survivals a bit different. Her
priorities are a bit different. Why would you put yourself
through hell to only have a few more days.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Left if you haven't put yourself through quite place. Yet
could you actually watch this one without of seeing those?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah? I think you could because the kind of I guess,
like the rules of this film universe are very very simple.
Don't make any noise. What I've liked about seeing these
films and cinemas sort of knowing what the premise is.
There's a bit longer of a hold for black at
the start of these films than you'd normally get. And
you're very aware of all your chippy packet, rustling seats, squirming,
(03:05):
tickle in the throat, half a fellow movie goers and yourself.
It's a reminder I had a bag of a bag
of lollies and I took a very patient approach to
you to that open.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, okay, don't you have a little SnapLock bagging, But
you can tip them into and then when you're in
the theater, they won't make you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Sure take a lot of curries to media screenings doesn't
happen anymore. The reason there hasn't been a lot of
noise about this no pun intended, is that there wasn't
a media screening for this film. Typically, that's what happens
when studios bury a film and decide that it's better
off of the public. Actually, don't hear about it before
it opens? Really boring reason. The release of this was
(03:43):
tied to Tribeca Film Festival and they didn't want to
have any screenings before it premiered. Big mistake because people
like me don't get to say, you know what, it's
not going to sit the world on fire. But it's
a pretty decent movie we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'd be talking about it too. Brad Petter's returned to
the British Grand Prix to continue filming his Formula one movie.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
What a cool titles film? Has f one? Straight out
no mucking about. He's at Silverstone this weekend. They've been
filming Is it a Dooco? It's a drama And for
the past year he's been going around Grand Prix's and
making this film that's like a big budget film set
in the real world of Formula One. He's driving for
(04:24):
a fictional team in this film. Probably a little bit
all day to be a Formula one driver. What's the
reaction time required? But more than hey, look anyway. Lewis
Hamilton's a co producer on this film. It's being made
with all the participation of the Formula One teams and associations.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Sounds like someone went out one night, came up, had
had a few drinks with someone in form one, came
up with a great idea, and when you know what,
I just love to follow Formula one for a year.
Let's make a film.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I just love the smell of petrol, so I just
want to be around petrol as much as I can.
This has a really good director attached, Joseph Kazinski, who
directed Top Gun Maverick. So, no, this is way around
this kind of high performance machinery. I reckon it'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think so too.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We won't see this until July or so of next year.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Always good.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I believe there might be a sneak peek of this,
like a kind of teaser playing as part of the
British Grand Prix coverage this weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
This weekend, I shall keep an eye out for it.
Thank you so much, Steve. Thank you for all the updates.
We'll catch up next.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Week for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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