Jordan Peele’s next horror project is Nope, and while this movie’s connections to Peele’s past movies are unknown, it’s already repeating an important part of Get Out’s greatness. Jordan Peele’s career started as a comedy actor, but in recent years, he has successfully transitioned from working in front of the camera to behind it and in the horror genre. Peele’s work as a horror writer and director has been a critical and commercial success, so it’s not surprising that there’s a lot of anticipation around his new projects, as he has also brought freshness to a genre that is currently packed with reboots, remakes, sequels, and more.

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Peele’s first horror movie was Get Out, released in 2017, which established his narrative and visual style along with the themes he likes to address, mainly racism. Get Out was a critical and commercial success, and so Peele moved forward with his next project: Us, released in 2019. After that, Peele hosted the third revival of The Twilight Zone, and he’s now back with a new horror movie simply titled Nope. Although it’s scheduled for a July 22, 2022 release, plot details about Nope are still being kept under wraps and only some hints have been revealed, so there’s a lot of expectation around Nope and a lot of fan theories as well, and it’s already repeating one of the things that made Get Out so great.

Nope will take viewers to Haywood Ranch, in California, owned by Jill (Keke Palmer) and James Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya). Along with the residents of this isolated town, Jill and James will witness a mysterious and abnormal supernatural event in what Peele has described as an “otherwordly confrontation”. Nope reunites Peele with Kaluuya, the lead actor of Get Out, and through him, Nope is repeating a big part of Get Out’s success, as Kaluuya’s performance was key to making Get Out one of the best horror movies of the decade.

Get Out followed Chris Washington (Kaluuya), a young black man dating Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), a white woman. When Chris is invited to meet Rose’s family, he soon finds himself trapped in a dangerous “business” where wealthy white people buy black people so their brains can be transplanted into their bodies when they die and they can continue living. Get Out’s success was the result of a combination of Peele’s script and Kaluuya’s outstanding performance, and Peele is already repeating part of that formula in Nope. Speaking to Empire, Peele shared that he wrote Nope with Kaluuya in mind, describing his character as a “humble man destined for an epic and otherwordly confrontation”. Peele added that Kaluuya’s craft is “on a different level” and that it’s “his warmth that grounds audiences even during points of absolute madness”.

Just like Kaluuya’s Chris was the audience’s connection to the rest of the story of Get Out, James Haywood will serve as such in Nope, and that can be key in Nope’s success along with the story. As mentioned above, Nope’s plot details are a mystery, but it’s heavily theorized that it’s about an alien invasion, so it’s going to be interesting to see how Kaluuya’s character will lead the audience through a situation like that.

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  • Nope (2022)Release date: Jul 22, 2022
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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided’s BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

When she’s not writing, you can find her trying to learn a new language, watching hockey (go Avs!), or wondering what life would have been like had Pushing Daisies, Firefly, and Limitless not been cancelled. Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round.

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