A Quiet Place: Day One’s Feline Star Could Get Its Own Movie

One of the star topology ofA Quiet Place : Day Oneis Frodo the computerized tomography , the service animal companion to Lupita Nyong’o ’s Sam , who steals the movie from even Joseph Quinn ( Stranger Things ) . It turns out the feline ’s future might be more significant than we opine , and that its journey in theQuiet Place franchisemight not be over .

If you have n’t seen the film , which just had the biggest opening in the chronicle of the franchise , go watch it and descend back to find out just how its furred co - star might return .

Director Michael Sarnoski toldthe Hollywood Reporterthat his prequel to John Krasinski’sA Quiet Place franchisedepended on the Frodo the big cat ’s role in Sam ’s story — but that it continuing on with Eric ( Quinn ) plants a sequel seed . “ Through Frodo and through Sam , [ Eric ] discover this campfire in the violent storm that becomes the matter he follows , ” Sarnoski . And to our backup man , Frodo ’s demise was never even considered as a patch percentage point . “ It always made sense that the big cat is passed along and would carry on , ” Sarnoski say . “ If you ’re gon na kill an creature , it ’s got to be for a really meaningful reason . Otherwise , you ’re just being cruel to the interview . He mean something to these characters , and I think it would have just been mean to kill him . ”

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How Frodo might play into a potential sequel is not yet known , though as Sarnoski indicate out , we might have an thought of where he ’d turn up next . “ A good part of those mass in all likelihood ended up on the island that we see in Part Two of A Quiet Place . I opine there ’s a good hazard that they ’re there , and unquestionably there ’s a salutary chance we ’re going to see them again , ” he teased . “ I just cogitate they did an incredible job . And I remember Paramount would be really happy to see where they stop up . I do n’t think there are any super specific plans . But I would not be surprised if that happens . So that ’s a very loose , unofficial sequel tease . ”

A Quiet Place : Day One is now in theaters .

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