We still know virtually nothing about Jordan Peele‘s Nope, which centers on the residents of a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to… well… SOMETHING.
Just what is this “uncanny and chilling discovery” that’s been teased in the plot synopsis? We won’t know until Universal releases Nope in theaters on July 22, 2022.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, star Keke Palmer doesn’t spill any of the beans, but she does tease that Nope is a much different experience than either Get Out or Us.
“Nope is nothing like Get Out or Us,” Palmer tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s a totally different vibe, it’s about something different — the themes are totally different, and the tone is totally different. This has a lot of ’70s tones, which I think is exciting.”
Palmer also tells EW, “I think Jordan has done a great job in all his films of talking about something. Get Out, obviously — a lot of that had to do with a conversation around racism, but then Us is about class, and with Nope you’ll take whatever you take from that. But I just love how with everything he does, while there will be Black leads, the gag isn’t always that you’re Black.”
“The film itself is what Jordan usually does: a commentary on something grander,” Palmer adds. “It uses the horror genre as a way to [examine] what we are all running from, or what we all get so totally obsessed with, how it defines us, how it brings us to the edge.”
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) will be reteaming with Peele on the mysterious movie, with the cast also including Steven Yeun (“The Walking Dead,” Mayhem) and Keke Palmer (“Scream”). Michael Wincott (The Crow), Barbie Ferreira and Brandon Perea also star.
Nope is part of a “five-year exclusive production partnership” Universal Pictures inked with Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, and it’s been described as a “horror event.” Mind you, anything from Peele at this point is instantly an event, but we can probably expect Nope to be Peele’s biggest movie to date, with an announced IMAX optimization. On that note, the film’s cinematographer is Hoyte van Hoytema, whose previous work includes Let the Right One In, Spectre, and the Christopher Nolan films Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet.
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