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A Quiet Place: Day One spoilers follow.
A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski has explained the movie's mysterious egg scene.
The prequel film looks at the start of the alien invasion that has plagued Earth in the first two films, and one particular scene potentially sheds more light on the extraterrestrial creatures.
The moment sees Eric (Joseph Quinn) witness the aliens feeding off of an egg-type entity while he tries to rescue Frodo the cat.
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Opening up about the sequence, Sarnoski reflected on widening the franchise's lore, admitting that there "wasn't some Bible" to adhere to from the original two movies, and that he didn’t want to "over-explain" the creatures.
"Part of what's so fun about them is that they're very alien and we don't fully understand them," he told SlashFilm. "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."
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Sarnoski further explained the pools of pink liquid that contain bodies, elaborating: "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."
He added that the scene is "hinting" at the fact that "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," Sarnoski continued. "So yeah, that was kind of what I was hinting at without making too fine a point of it."
A Quiet Place: Day One is out now in cinemas.
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