Got to get Krasinski back into the story, if only briefly.

So…prequel time, back to the days when the sound-sensitive alien beasties first dropped in.

Krasinski didn’t direct. He just gets a story credit, a brief appearance and a fat check as The Franchise rolls on.

Good replacement cast, though — Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou

June 28.