Jordan Peele's films are now an event of their own. Thanks to Get Out and Us, the director/writer has gained a large following, both critically and financially, for his work. His third movie, Nope, will finally hit theaters, and has had a decent air of mystery since the original poster. With the film a little over a month away, Universal is starting to give more information about what the third outing is going to be.
The final trailer for the film, starring Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya, was released earlier in the week. There is something in the sky that is causing everyone to look up in confusion and eventually horror. If the trailer is to be believed.
Nope is going to be about aliens. OJ and Emerald talk about trying to get a "money shot" of the extraterrestrials with the help of a techie named Angel and a documentarian in the trailer. During the final moments of the trailer, we can see the flying saucer chases down OJ. If you go in blind, the trailer choosing not to dance around this or obscure the aliens in any real manner has effectively spoiled the film.
Does it actually work? Since that first trailer, the alien theory has been around the film. The movie is set in a small town with people constantly looking up in the air and one of the posters shows a horse in the sky. Beings not of this world would show up in this movie. By the standards of Peele's previous work, this isn't breaking tradition. Both Us and Get Out made it clear that the cast would be facing their doppelgangers. The plots of these films don't have anything to hide, even though the specifics of those trailers play around with.
We have our own examples to draw from, and there are films that give away too much of the game. Even if everyone else doesn't like you, I still remember you. While his characters are faced with unknown horrors, the films are less about learning more about them than they are figuring out how to escape them. The journey is as important as the destination for him. When black people are faced with weird shit, this man wants you to see what it is like, and he will give you enough information to form your own thoughts on what will happen. It could be that it is exactly what it says on the tin, or there is a deeper meaning for you to think about. Nope is going to stay with you when it hits theaters.
Maybe the aliens are a smoke screen for something bigger. We might find out next month that they are angels.
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