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A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski explains one mysterious element of the film that involves pinkish eggs. A prequel to John Krasinski’s acclaimed 2018 film A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Day One shows viewers what New York City would have looked like on the first few days that the super-hearing aliens from the originally came down to Earth. A Quiet Place: Day One features a leading cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, and Thea Butler.
Speaking with Slash Film, Sarnoski explains the pinkish eggs from A Quiet Place: Day One. Check out the full quote from Sarnoski below:
Yeah, I mean, I would suggest things in the script and there wasn’t some Bible of like, “Here’s how the creatures work and you’ve got to do this stuff.” Everyone was kind of open to new ideas. I think a big thing with these creatures was finding that balance of you don’t want to over-explain them. Part of what’s so fun about them is that they’re very alien and we don’t fully understand them. So I wanted to hint at a couple things. I mean, for me, the egg thing, and it’s very not made a focus — I didn’t want to make that scene like, “Hey, here’s what’s going on,” and that’s important because it’s not important to Eric at that time. He’s just trying to save Frodo and you’re just kind of getting a hint that there’s an ecosystem of these creatures around him.
But yeah, for me, what I was getting at with that was you can see all these sort of pools of this pink, glassy liquid, and if you look closely, you can see that there’s bodies in those pools. And the idea is that in the other movies, you kind of get that the creatures take people, and they never really say what they’re doing with them. And I think everyone’s just like, “Oh, they’re eating the people or something.” But I like the idea that the creatures are kind of leafcutter ants that are sort of farming, using the organic material of people to grow what is their food source, which is these kind of weird melon-y, egg, mushroom things that they sort of feed the little ones with. So it just kind of is hinting at, at the end of the day, these are farmers and they have a little bit of a family dynamic to them. I liked that idea, especially coming off the first “Quiet Place” that’s about a rural farming family. So yeah, that was kind of what I was hinting at without making too fine a point of it.
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Source: Slash Film
