The streets of New York have by no means been quieter than they’re within the newest trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One, the forthcoming prequel to the collection of thriller movies that flip sound right into a lethal weapon. The brand new preview of the movie, set for theatrical launch on June 28, finds Lupita Nyong’o’s Sam and Joseph Quinn‘s Eric navigating an more and more harmful minefield as routes into and out of town are destroyed.

The movie’s fundamental forged of characters — which additionally contains Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou — witness the horrors of societal collapse as grotesque creatures slaughter and slay the whole lot inside the basic radius of a startling noise. In making an attempt to remain alive, they discover ways to use the abandoned metropolis to their benefit. In a single scene, Quinn hurls a piece of concrete by the window of an deserted taxi cab, permitting himself and Nyong’o to make a break for it whereas the blind monsters are distracted.

The brand new trailer zeros in on this fundamental forged of characters, increasing on the origin story established within the first preview that featured a name again to the primary two A Quiet Place movies, which starred John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. Krasinski serves as a producer on A Quiet Place: Day One, having crafted the movie’s story alongside screenwriter and director Michael Sarnoski.

“It’s extra of a [character] drama than something,” Quinn informed Leisure Weekly earlier this yr. “The script is clearly set on this planet that we all know, but it surely’s very a lot a movie about these two characters who’re misplaced and making an attempt to barter their fates. There are additionally some great different characters within the movie who Sam encounters, however the bulk of it’s Eric and Sam of their mutual acceptance of this bleak, extra quiet, new actuality.”

It marks a departure from the unique framing of the franchise, which initially centered on Blunt and Krasinski’s characters making an attempt their finest to maintain their household collectively within the midst of chaos and tragedy. “We don’t have that on this movie,” Nyong’o added. “We’ve these disparate people who collide into one another’s lives, and it’s at a really pivotal time for the world. How do they negotiate survival collectively? What we get is basically attention-grabbing — and even shocking — chemistry within the characters that meet one another alongside the way in which.”