Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “A Quiet Place”

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
1 min readJan 13, 2019

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The entire 6 part series delving into hit horror movie.

This week, we have been reading, analyzing, and discussing the script and movie A Quiet Place, screenplay by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski, story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck.

IMDb plot summary: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Plot
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
Takeaways

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

30 Days of Screenplays [2013]

30 Days of Screenplays [2014]

For the archives of 70 Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis Series posts, go here.

Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.

Next movie script read and analysis: Destroyer. You may download the script here. Join us on Monday, January 21.

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