A Quiet Place: Day One
Hugely successful feature staring Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn. Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski. Produced by John Krasinksi, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Allyson Seeger and Vicki Dee Rock for Paramount Pictures.
Mentions in reviews…
"Production designer Simon Bowles takes full advantage of the opportunities afforded by New York. Places we automatically associate with care and comfort like a hospital become potential death traps as noise brings the aliens crashing through glass walls and skylights. A cathedral serves as a place of reprieve, despite a massive hole formed by a creature smashing through its tiled floor and another one ripped out of its frescoed dome.” - The Hollywood Reporter
"The production design team deserve the most credit. A Quiet Place: Day One looks believable. It has an Independence Day vibe of total calamity. Scenes of the meteors pummeling buildings, releasing the critters like raging hornets, and the military's 'blow stuff up' response are all pure eye candy." - Movieweb
"Cinematographer Pat Scola and production designer Simon Bowles conceive a Manhattan that has been pulverised by the aliens, whose unnerving, inhuman clicking remains the franchise’s most disturbing element." - Screen International
"And final kudos to ace production designer Simon Bowles and acclaimed cinematographer Pat Scola for bringing this widespread apocalyptic event to the screen in all its raw reality” - Space.com
Click above for a short tour of the backlot set.
Above: visuals of the final view of Chinatown and the same view showing what will actually be built on the backlot set.
Above is the 3D model of the backlot set as seen in virtual reality before the set was built. Below is a screen shot from the final movie.
Above: aerial view of a section of the backlot set at Leavesden Studios, London.
The movie was shot on a huge four-block backlot set and sound stages at Leavesden Studios in London.
Above: my visual showing a portion of the destruction when Samira starts her journey starting under the Manhattan Bridge.
Below: the final shot in the movie.
Above: a portion of the set destroyed.
Below; Simon Bowles on set during filming of A Quiet Place Day One with producers Allyson Seeger, John Krasinski and Andrew Form.
