Universal Pictures has released all three of filmmaker Jordan Peele’s directing efforts to date – Get Out, Us, and Nope. And their working relationship is going to continue with the fourth movie Peele will be directing, a project that is, so far, only known as Untitled Fourth Film Directed by Jordan Peele. Nine months ago, Universal announced that they would be releasing Peele’s fourth film on Wednesday, December 25, 2024… but that plan has since changed. World of Reel reports that Universal has removed the film from its 2024 release slate, and it looks likely to be bumped to a date sometime in 2025.
One major reason why Universal and Peele may have decided to change the release date is the fact that they had been hoping to get the film into production this past summer – something they weren’t able to do because of the Hollywood strike that brought most productions to a halt for several months this year.
There’s also speculation that they didn’t want to compete with The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman writer/director Robert Eggers‘ highly anticipated remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu. Just last month, Focus Features announced they will be giving that film a theatrical release on the same date Universal had previously chosen for their Jordan Peele project, December 25, 2024. By doing this, Focus Features said they were making Nosferatu “a prime holiday season release.”
Nothing is really known about this fourth Jordan Peele movie, although World of Reel mentioned there was a rumor that Peele would be working with Nope cast members Steven Yeun and Daniel Kaluuya (who was also the star of Get Out) again for this one. That rumor “could never be corroborated with strong sourcing.” So we’ll have to wait and see what it’s going to be and when it’s going to be released.
In the meantime, Peele is producing a reboot of Wes Craven’s 1991 film The People Under the Stairs for Universal, and Doom Patrol and Night Sky writer Ezra Claytan Daniels was recently hired to write the screenplay for that one.
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