Here’s weird news break that came off Playboy.com, who report that “Key & Peele’s” Jordan Peele is writing and directing a horror movie!
“I’ve been spending the first half of my career focusing on comedy but my goal, in all honesty, is to write and direct horror movies,” reveals Peele. “I have one that I’m working on with Darko Entertainment called Get Out – I don’t want to say too much about it, but it is one of the very, very few horror movies that does jump off of racial fears. That to me is a world that hasn’t been explored. Specifically, the fears of being a black man today. The fears of being any person who feels like they’re a stranger in any environment that is foreign to them. It deals with a protagonist that I don’t see in horror movies.”
First, it’s awesome that he’s working with Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly. Second, I have been saying this for years that we need more urban horror. I would love to see another movie in the vein of Candyman. It makes me beyond excited to know that Peele will be playing in that area, only I beg that it’s not a fuckin’ comedy.
