get out (2017, dir. jordan peele)

not that much money! he's sticking with Blumhouse rather than chasing cash

(listened to an interview with Leigh Whanne1 this week where he talked about Blum's extreme resistance to raise his usual $5m budget for Upgrade: Get Out was 4.5, BlacKkKlansman was 15, Upgrade was 16, Us is on wikip at $20m.)

will also say the trailers are too long/give too much away - then again I haven't seen it

early festival reviews were SUPER positive so I'm approaching this with some excitement

I wonder if Jordan Peele wants to make horror films, or if he just had a fluke hit (that had lots else on its mind) and it was hard to turn down all the money that was thrown at him.

Get Out gave Peele options. He was offered BlacKkKlansman, for example (he decided Spike Lee should direct it instead, and he would produce). He was offered big superhero movies (he won’t say which ones). If he’d wanted to make a Get Out sequel, he could have named his price. But really Peele was committed to directing his own, original stories, mostly in the key of horror.

Horror was Peele’s first love, he says. He describes himself as “a scared kid”, but he was also the one who’d tell scary stories around the campfire: “The feeling of hearing an audience go ‘Ooh-hoo-hoo’ and shuddering. I got results. That sort of marked the transition from the scared kid to the guy who lived with the monsters, who could wield the fear.”

Now Peele has come out as a horror nut, he is making up for lost time. Next month, he launches a star-studded reboot of The Twilight Zone for CBS’s All Access streaming service, in which he serves as co-producer and host. He has also got Lovecraft Country – another horror-tinged drama for HBO, co-producing with JJ Abrams.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/09/jordan-peele-on-us-this-is-a-very-different-movie-from-get-out

Yeah, he did an interview on the Nerdist podcast back when Get Out came out and it was evident that he had big horror plans.

he curated several weeks of "black horror movies" at BAM when get out was hot; his taste was solid and smart

I think Us looks scary and amazing. I can't wait to see it.

yeah, i'm all in for this one

deeper he gets into genre the better imo

otm

All of this is good to know--clearly he's doing exactly what he wants to.

This was fine. Illogical ending.

Perhaps a new thread?

US by jordan peele

Finally watched this yesterday. I liked it a lot! Cracking up at TSA guy. I look forward to seeing Us in two years time.

Noe *this* is a trailer:

What’s a bad miracle? pic.twitter.com/x37K3Inwk7

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) February 13, 2022

Now, not Noe, lol. Noe is a different animal.

Holy shit that’s a trailer

THAT is what a trailer should do: get you hype without a diagram of what the movie is.

yeah it looks so good & i have no idea what it is lmao

EXACTLY.

us's rabbit teaser wasn't quite enough. this is good.

Is it aliens? Is it Eldritch abominations? Is it environmental catastrophe?

Perhaps… it’s all three.

yes to nope

Looks good

looks great, i just hope peele isn't going shyamalan on us

hope it's more of a film theory thing than plot twist thing

the maid in the kitchen and Steenburgen standing next to her

Haw at this. For a split second, I thought maybe Mary Steenburgen had been in this movie.

Shows you what clever casting this was. Catherine Keener in those windows from The Sunken Place after having also starred in "Being John Malkovich". That movie written by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote "I’m Thinking of Ending Things," a movie about a couple going to visit the parents, who may or not be who they seem, etc.

Mary Steenburgen. I thought she was wonderful in Twister.