The first trailer for Jordan Peele’s Us follow-up Nope has arrived ahead of its debut at the Super Bowl. Peele, who was previously known for his work on the sketch comedy series Key & Peele, is now one of the most critically acclaimed horror directors working today.
After releasing his debut directorial feature GetOut, the writer director scored the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his meditation on racism and neo liberalism. Now, Peele is set to return this year with an extremely mysterious project titled Nope and, save for the cast and a poster, not much was known about the film.
Nopewill star The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun, Hustlers actress Keke Palmer, and Daniel Kaluuya, the latter of whom starred in GetOut and earned a Best Actor nomination for his performance.
From there, the ranch where they work is introduced and, unsurprisingly, it appears to be very strange. From the appearance of other worldly creatures to the inflatable tube men that line the dirt road, it’s clear that the ranch in the Nopetrailer is not a safe place to be.
While the Nopetrailer seems to hint that aliens could be involved, Peele is known for his twisty plots so there is no telling what the actual movie has in store for audiences. Like the tethered in Us, there is sure to be more than meets the eye in the actual movie.
With a July 2022 release date, the Nopetrailer is the first of many reveals for Peele’s Usfollow-up and it seems like it will only further cement him as one of the greatest horror directors working today.
This is made clear in the final moments when Palmer’s character is seemingly abducted by something in the air, calling back to the first poster for Nope, which feautres a cloud with a tail of flags hanging from it over a brightly lit town. This image can be briefly seen in the video, but the origins of this mysterious cloud remian unclear.
