Is Jordan Peele's Nope Connected To Get Out & Us? | Screen Rant
Jordan Peele’s next horror project is simply titled Nope, and there’s a lot of speculation around it already, especially about its possible connections to Peele’s previous movies, Get Out and Us – so, are all of his movies connected? The horror genre has been going through a great run in recent years, thanks to sequels and reboots, adaptations of other horror media, and original works as well. One of the biggest new names in the horror genre is Jordan Peele, who successfully transitioned from comedy to horror with the movies Get Out and Us.
Jordan Peele started his career in the entertainment world as a comedian, and in 2003 he joined the cast of Mad TV, where he met Keegan-Michael Key, with whom he joined forces in the sketch series Key & Peele from 2012 to 2015. Two years later, Peele made the jump from comedy to horror and to working behind the cameras with his directorial debut Get Out. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, and Bradley Whitford, Get Out was a critical and commercial success, and gave Peele his first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Peele's next horror movie, Us, was released in 2019 and was also a critical and commercial hit, and that same year he executive produced and narrated the third revival of the TV series The Twilight Zone.
Peele also co-produced and co-wrote the 2021 Candyman sequel, and he’s now preparing for the release of his next original horror movie. Simply titled Nope, the project was announced in November 2020 and details have been kept under wraps ever since. The cast of Nope is formed by Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun, and the movie is scheduled for a July 22, 2022 release. A teaser for Nope was released ahead of the first trailer’s premiere at the Super Bowl LVI, and as expected, it didn’t show anything about the story, instead featuring quick looks at the main cast and footage of Get Out and Us, further fueling the belief that all of Jordan Peele’s movies are connected.
What Peele’s movies have in common are a good dose of social commentary and a style that stays away from jump scares and supernatural creatures (at least for now), and even before Us came out, viewers started to theorize that there’s a Jordan Peele shared universe. In 2018, Peele revealed that Get Out has Easter eggs that he will “probably continue to weave in the universe of his next movie”, further fueling the belief of a shared universe. This has gained force after the teaser for Nope, with fans hoping they will catch details and Easter eggs that directly link Nope to Get Out and Us. It’s also believed that rather than building a shared universe, what Peele is doing with his movies is sending a message through their titles: “Get Out, Us? Nope”.
It’s unlikely that a connection between Get Out, Us, and Nope will be confirmed through the trailer of the latter as it will surely only reveal basic plot details in order to keep most of the story a surprise, but fans of Jordan Peele’s horror work will surely have a fun time looking for clues in Nope that can confirm the shared universe belief – that, of course, if Peele doesn’t confirm or deny it first.