A couple of weeks ago, the trailer for Get Out (watch it HERE) and Us (watch that one HERE) writer/director Jordan Peele‘s third film Nope was released to give us an idea of what this mysterious project will have in store for us when it reaches theatres on July 22. Now a new poster has been unveiled, offering us the sight of a horse and various other objects being lifted into the sky. The threat is coming from above in this one, but Peele and the Universal marketing department are keeping the threat obscured, even in the new Nope poster.
The press release lists the genre of Nope as not just a horror movie, but a “horror epic”. It goes on to build the hype further with this line: “Oscar winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope.”
For the story, all they’re telling us is that the film centers on
residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Those residents are played by Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah), Keke Palmer (Alice), and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead). Also in the cast are Michael Wincott (The Crow), Brandon Perea (The OA), and Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria).
It has been said that the film will
follow in the same vein as Peele’s past two directorial efforts, terrifying and subversive tales full of socially-conscious thematics in regards to race and society.
Peele produced Nope through his company Monkeypaw Productions, alongside Ian Cooper. Distributor Universal Pictures is building this up as such an event that it will even be playing on IMAX screens. Nope was “shot on KODAK film, including 65mm film in IMAX format.”
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Here’s the new Nope poster: