Jordan Peele Reveals A Surprising Detail About New Horror Movie Nope

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Jordan Peele reveals a surprising new detail about his latest movie Nope. Written and directed by Peele, Nope marks the filmmaker's third venture into horror after Get Out and Us. Nope tells the story of OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer), siblings who try to capture evidence of a UFO in the sky that has caused unexplained events in their small town. Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, and Barbie Ferreira also star in the highly-anticipated film, which arrives in theaters this month.

With Get Out and Us, Peele had reinvented the wheel of horror movies involving Black leads, but the filmmaker is doing something different this time around with Nope. In a recent interview with Essence, Peele explains to Kaluuya that he wanted Nope to be more than just a "Black horror" film. Nope also had to talk about "Black joy" to be as relevant as it possibly can, and that ties into actual Black history. Peele says:

It's so tricky being considered in the vanguard of Black horror, because obviously Black horror is so very real, and it's hard to do it in a way that's not retraumatizing and sad. I was going into my third horror film starring Black leads, and somewhere in the process I realized that the movie had to be about Black joy as well, in order to fit what the world needs at this moment. So that is part of why there's sort of a spectrum of tonality of genre in here, because I wanted to give the horror, but I also wanted to give our characters agency and adventure and hope and joy and fun that they deserve.

I think one of the things we have with this film is a movie that transcends the horror genre, in a way. The first film clip [Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion] was essentially a Black man on a horse who has been