Jordan Peele Sets Sights on More Social-Themed Thrillers; New Featurette
Steve Barton
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Having already seen Get Out (review), I can tell you first-hand that director Jordan Peele has a bright future behind the camera. Thankfully, the man’s already working on some new stuff! Read on for the early word as well as a new featurette.
Arrow in the Head caught up with Peele to get the skinny on what’s next…
“I’ve been developing several different movies in the category I call ‘the social thriller.’ They all bite off of a different human demon. Get Out is about several things, but obviously it’s about race… the next one will be about something else.”
About Get Out:
In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series, and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, “Girls”), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods).
At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.
Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Peele (Key and Peele) and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, as well as Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, The Box), Peele, and Edward H. Hamm Jr. (The Box, Bad Words). The film also stars Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men series), Milton “Lil Rel” Howery (“The Carmichael Show”), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year), Marcus Henderson (Pete’s Dragon), and Keith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton).
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