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Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Seeking Oscar Consideration With New Trailer
Jordan Peele debuted on the horror scene with Get Out back in 2017, which won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The film was also nominated in the Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Achievement in Directing categories, and Peele is hoping to return to the Academy Awards with his third horror movie.
Unquestionably one of this year’s best, Jordan Peele’s Nope is getting a full-on Oscar campaign from Universal Pictures, with the film receiving a new “For Your Consideration” trailer today.
Peele’s Nope is seeking consideration in “all eligible categories” for next year’s Academy Awards, and it’s not hard to imagine the film getting nominations in several categories. For starters, Best Original Screenplay, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role nominations are surely on the table.
Best Picture? Best Director? Peele’s done it before, and he may do it again next year.
In the meantime, you can check out the brand new “For Your Consideration” trailer below.
Oscar® winner Jordan Peele reimagines the summer movie with Nope, an expansive pop epic of uncanny science fiction and complex social thriller that unpacks the seeds of violence, risk and opportunism that are inseparable from the romanticized history of the American West … and from show business itself.
Nope stars Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea and Keith David. The film is produced by Ian Cooper p.g.a., and is written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele. The executive producers are Robert Graf and Win Rosenfeld.
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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