A Quiet Place's New $245 Million Hit Helps Prove A Quiet Place 3 Can't Be The End

Summary A Quiet Place: Day One proves the franchise can expand without the Abbott family, introducing new compelling characters like Sam and Eric.

The success of A Quiet Place: Day One at the box office shows the potential for prequels, sequels, and spinoffs in the franchise.

A Quiet Place 3 can conclude the Abbotts' story while leaving room for the universe to continue with new characters and settings.

A Quiet Place 3 can't be the end of the franchise now, as A Quiet Place: Day One proves there is still more to explore. Six years after John Krasinski, Scott Beck, and Bryan Woods successfully launched a new sci-fi/horror series, the universe expanded beyond the confines of the Abbott family by making a prequel. The idea of seeing when the aliens first invaded made A Quiet Place: Day One an exciting new story for the franchise. But with the Abbott family's return being saved for A Quiet Place 3, the 2024 movie became a test for the franchise's future.

The world and timeline of A Quiet Place is something that holds great potential for expansion. With audiences only so far experiencing stories with Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe's characters at the center, there was uncertainty about what else audiences would be interested in seeing. This put some additional pressure on A Quiet Place: Day One's box office. It's already known that A Quiet Place 3 is happening and will likely end the Abbotts' story. Now, it's clear that the franchise needs to continue without them.

2:07 Related First Detail Confirmed For The Final A Quiet Place Movie A Quiet Place: Day One ends with a clear connection to the previous films, which could set up an important character in A Quiet Place III.

A Quiet Place: Day One's Box Office Proves More Prequels & Spinoffs Could Succeed

The Prequel Has Made $245 Million

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Any doubts about the viability of A Quiet Place as a franchise that audiences want to see expanded have been squashed by A Quiet Place: Day One's box office. The movie's opening weekend at $53 million domestically was a franchise record. While its box office total is currently the lowest of every A Quiet Place movie, the current tally of $245 million is still quite impressive. Prequels can often be trickier to get audiences interested in, but with a reported budget of $67 million, A Quiet Place: Day One is a massive box office hit.

The fact that A Quiet Place: Day One has made $245 million and counting speaks volumes. There is now some proof that audiences are interested in prequels, spinoffs, or sequels that are focused on expanding the franchise in unique ways. There has already been plenty of setup for A Quiet Place sequels and spinoffs. A Quiet Place: Day One was one of these ideas previously teased, and now that it has proven to be a financially successful entry for the series, it would be understandable for Paramount to greenlight more installments in a hit franchise.

Movie Box Office A Quiet Place (2018) $340.9 million A Quiet Place Part II (2020) $297.3 million A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) $245 million

A Quiet Place: Day One Confirms The Franchise Still Works Without The Abbotts

Sam & Eric Were Great New Characters

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The financial success of A Quiet Place: Day One is one thing, but the franchise also looks to be in a great spot for the future based on the actual story and characters it includes. Lupita Nyong'o's Sam and Joseph Quinn's Eric were well-written characters who were noticeably different from the Abbott family members too. It was very easy to root for Sam and Eric's survival and quest to get pizza. That's why Eric's teased return for A Quiet Place 3 is so exciting, and why Sam's apparent death in A Quiet Place: Day One's ending is so sad.

Related Why Sam Wants Pizza So Badly In A Quiet Place: Day One A Quiet Place: Day One is a compelling horror movie with an unusual mission for the leading character Sam, whose only desire in life is to get pizza.

Sam and Eric prove that A Quiet Place movies can work without the Abbotts being at the center. A Quiet Place Part II suggested this possibility with Cillian Murphy's Emmett, but he still was always interacting with one of the main family members. There is now no doubt that other characters in different settings and stages of life are worth following in other A Quiet Place movies. That isn't likely to happen with A Quiet Place 3, which is exactly why the franchise should continue afterward.

A Quiet Place 3 Can End The Abbotts' Storyline Without Killing The Franchise

The Universe Can Live On

The idea that A Quiet Place 3 will end the Abbott family's storyline makes sense on paper, as it gives Blunt, Simmonds, and Jupe a chance to exit the franchise. No matter how the threequel decides to wrap up the main trilogy and arcs for the different Abbott family members, it does not have to kill the franchise in the process. The movie could wrap up their stories while leaving teases of what happens next in the universe. Emmett, Eric, or other new characters could then be left to become the leads of A Quiet Place and replace the Abbotts.

Furthermore, there is plenty of room for future A Quiet Place movies to explore this world without the Abbotts. The franchise has so far only explored a handful of days spread across over 400 days since the aliens came, and all the stories have taken place in New York. Since this invasion happened worldwide, there are easy paths to change locations, introduce new characters, and explore what life was like in other parts of the world. A Quiet Place: Day One showed how well this can work, so A Quiet Place 3 can't be the franchise's end.