“The Office” alum is back to direct, write and produce the fourth film in the Paramount series.

John Krasinski returns to director’s chair for A Quiet Place Part III, sets summer 2027 release date

"The Office" alum is back to direct, write and produce the fourth film in the Paramount series.

By Mekishana Pierre

Published on August 1, 2025 04:33PM EDT

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John Krasinski and Emily Blunt behind the scenes of 'A Quiet Place II'. Credit: Jonny Cournoyer/Paramount Pictures

Bring out the gags — it's time to head back to *A Quiet Place*.

On Friday, John Krasinski announced that those deadly monsters with heightened hearing are making their return in *A Quiet Place Part III. *

*The Office* alum took to his Instagram account to reveal that the highly anticipated fourth installment of his Paramount Pictures franchise has been slated for release on July 9, 2027.**

Krasinski, who pulled double duty writing and directing the first two films in the franchise, is also returning to the director’s chair and writing the script for Part III, * *can confirm.

The director, who also starred in 2018's *A Quiet Place* and its 2021 sequel *A Quiet Place Part II*, will produce with Allyson Seeger via their Sunday Night Productions — which has a first-look deal with the studio — along with Platinum Dunes.

Plot details are still under wraps for the upcoming feature and the cast has not been confirmed yet. Krasinski will likely not star in this film as well since his character died in the first film, but considering the franchise's liberal use of flashbacks, fans shouldn't count him out.

Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, and John Krasinski in 'A Quiet Place'. Jonny Cournoyer/ Paramount Pictures

*A Quiet Place Part III *serves as Krasinski's return to the franchise after the prequel film, *A Quiet Place: Day One*, was helmed by writer-director Michael Sarnoski. The spin-off depicts how the alien apocalypse seen in the original films first came about. Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, and Alex Wolff, *Day One* shows the invasion of Earth by the aliens who come to be known as Death Angels. The key to survival in these films is — per the title — to be as quiet as possible.**

The *Quiet Place* franchise has grossed over $900 million worldwide across its three films.

The first film introduces the Abbott family, including Lee Abbott (Krasinski), his pregnant wife Evelyn (Emily Blunt), deaf daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), and young son Marcus (Noah Jupe), who are fighting for survival on their rural farmhouse in upstate New York as their world is overrun by vicious, blind monsters that hunt their prey through their enhanced hearing. The family is forced to live in silence in response, adapting sign language to communicate and walking barefoot on sand to damper the sounds of their steps.

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Lupita Nyong'o and her cat could definitely survive in 'A Quiet Place'

*Part II, *which saw its release pushed due to Covid, saw Blunt, Jupe and Simmonds having to leave their home after their successful takedown of one of the alien creatures in the wake of Lee's death has left the site in shambles. The flick, which also starred Cillian Murphy as an old family friend named Emmett, nabbed a BAFTA nomination for Best Sound.**

Sarnoski's *Day One* is set in New York City during the advent of the apocalypse. The film memorably added a new wrinkle to the main characters' survival: pets — specifically cats.

Joseph Quinn and Lupita Nyong'o in 'A Quite Place: Day One'.

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Nyong'o's character Samira is accompanied throughout the movie by her cat Frodo, which inspired the *Quiet Place* cat challenge on TikTok in which participants walk around with a cat in their arms waiting to see if the furball will make any noises that would alert the films' monsters. (It mostly went pretty well.)

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The partnership is fitting because Nyong'o didn't totally fall in love with cats until filming extensively with one for *A Quiet Place: Day One*.

"I was afraid of cats when I started this movie," the actress told *EW* earlier last year. "By the end of the movie, I was crying leaving that cat. Now I am definitely a cat mom. I have my cat's fur all over me, and I think of it as a symbol of affection, which I never imagined I would."**

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