Everybody be very quiet… shh… shh… Okay, are we all safely sound-free? Phew! Well then, we guess it’s probably safe to share some very exciting casting news then from a quiet place — or A Quiet Place: Part III to be more specific. Today, as we all wrap our heads around another dizzying awards bash following last night and the 2026 Oscars, A Quiet Place director-creator-godhead John Krasinski has taken to Instagram to reveal a slew of exciting casting announcements for his upcoming sci-fi sequel. Per the writer-director’s post, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe are all back back back for the threequel, while Murphy’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple co-star Jack O’Connell, The Running Man‘s Katy O’Brian, and Oppenheimer‘s Jason Clarke are all entering the dystopian franchise’s fray.
“So proud to be part of this A Quiet Place Family…old and new!” wrote director-writer Krasinski, returning to the franchise after 2024’s Michael Sarnoski-directed prequel A Quiet Place: Day One, on Instagram. “Here we go!” And here we go indeed, folks. Per Variety‘s reporting, production on the sci-fi horror threequel is due to get underway in New York this spring ahead of the movie’s planned 30 July, 2027 cinema release date. Where exactly the fourth instalment in the sci-fi horror saga will take the series next remains, as you’d expect, firmly under wraps for now. We are very intrigued to see what exactly Krasinski has in store though — as you may recall, *SPOILER ALERT* the demogorgon-like Death Angels did seem to have been finally been dealt with once and for all at the end of A Quiet Place Part II. But if horror cinema has taught us anything, then it’s that monsters — like loved ones — are never really gone. N’aww.
All of the newcomers for AQP3 (as nobody will acronymise it) bring genre nous with them: O’Connell is coming off the back of the aforementioned 28 Years Later sequel and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners; O’Brian has navigated a dystopia or two with Wright’s The Running Man and The Mandalorian; and Jason Clarke has both a Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and a Terminator Genisys on his resumé. We’ll see how they, and their franchise veteran co-stars, fare in this latest chapter of A Quiet Place next summer. Until then, we shall contain our excitement to indoor voices only — and we advise you do the same. Who knows where the Death Angels will pop up next…
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