John Krasinski lines up sci-fi movie following success of A Quiet Place

Life on Mars will centre on a colonist who discovers she can breathe the planet's air

With A Quiet Place currently sweeping up at the box office, director John Krasinski has already firmly set his sights on a follow-up project.

Krasinski will reunite with the producing team behind A Quiet Place - Michael Bay (yes, that Michael Bay), Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller - to direct Life on Mars, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film will adapt Cecil Castellucci's short story We Have Always Lived on Mars, which centres on a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm.

The woman one day discovers she can breathe the planet's air, which upends both her world and that of her fellow colonists.

A writer is yet to be attached and Krasinski is not expected to star, though it was the actor-turned-director who initially found the story and brought it to producers.

Paramount, who distributed A Quiet Place, is in negotiations to pick up the project; it's hard to imagine they'll turn it down, however, considering Krasinski's horror outing opened to an astounding $50.2 million, far surpassing its $17 million budget, and garnered strong reviews.

A Quiet Place centres on a family of survivors following a global invasion of extraterrestrial beings who hunt through sound.

It marks Krasinski's third outing as a director, following 2009's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, adapting David Foster Wallace's collection of short stories, and 2016's The Hollars, in which he starred opposite Anna Kendrick.

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