a quiet place monster drawing

Back in April, right before A Quiet Place was unleashed into theaters, director/star John Krasinski had explained to Collider that the design of the movie's creatures (which we had not seen a glimpse of at the time) had been changed at the final hour; according to Krasinski, it was in post-production that the design of the computer-generated monsters was changed!

"I had designed this character and this creature, and we loved it. We had so many details like drawings and boards and things for the kids to look at," he told the site. "And then I was really deep in the [post-production], and it was one of those moments where — this sounds super nerdy, but now I understand when people talk about visual effects and seeing this — you could just see that he wasn't going to work as well as a different design."

Now that A Quiet Place is out on DVD/Blu-ray, we have an idea of what those original designs looked like. Via Screen Rant, the bonus features highlight the film's early designs.

The site explains…

"According to comments made by the crew in the special features on A Quiet Place's home video release, the production team led by Jeffery Beecroft and concept artist Luis Carrasco, as well as many other crew members, started by making the monster blind since they were drawn to sound. Krasinski took inspiration from prehistoric fish, with Beecroft looking at nautilus shells. While all that eventually led to the final design, they originally had much bigger, more rigid monsters on their mind."

Check out the early concepts below and be sure to pick up the film on Blu-ray.

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