Thanks to the film’s box office success and across-the-board critical acclaim, it didn’t take long for a sequel to director John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place to be announced, with Paramount confirming last month that a follow-up is indeed in development. If Krasinski has his way, he tells Deadline, the sequel will open up the first film’s unique world.

“The thing that I loved in the movie… where my mind kept wandering as we were making it, was the question of who was on the other end of those fires, when the father lights the fire and in the distance those other fires light up,” Krasinski hinted to the site. “How did those people survive? How did that old man survive?”

He continued, “In the extreme these characters are going through [in the first film], there’s no room to think about that. They’re there, there’s an old man who’s about to scream, they just have to deal with that. I think it would be interesting to see what’s going on elsewhere at this same time.”

Recently, A Quiet Place writers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck had noted that they have plenty of ideas for a sequel, so we can only assume/hope they’ll be back.

“It’s such a fun world,” Woods told Fandango a few weeks back. “There are so many things you could do.” Beck added, “There are so many discarded set pieces, too, just hiding out on Word documents on our computer. So, yeah, there are certainly so many stories you could tell.”

At this time, no release date has been set.