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Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Has a Really Fun Easter Egg Connection to ‘The Lost Boys’
As you probably spotted in the trailers, Jordan Peele’s Us partially filmed on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California, which memorably played the role of the fictional town of Santa Carla in The Lost Boys. In fact, there’s a portion of Peele’s new nightmare that takes place in 1986, and you’ll want to pay close attention to catch a fun nod to the ’87 vampire classic.
“We shot in Santa Cruz and the first scene of our movie is there,” Peele explained to Uproxx this week. “It’s the same beach, it’s the same amusement park. And it’s even 1986.”
He continues, “There is a reference to The Lost Boys shooting by the carousel. They’re walking down the Santa Monica boardwalk and the mother says, ‘You know they’re shooting a movie over there by the carousel.’”
Yes, what Peele is saying here is that the 1986-set events of Us are taking place at the very same time Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys is being filmed at the very same location!
Peele’s Us (read our review) arrives in theaters TONIGHT.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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