He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
In an interview a couple of years ago, filmmaker Osgood Perkins revealed that Jordan Peele had shown him a moment of vulnerability during a conversation. Peele told him that he had set the bar so high with Get Out that every new movie he made had to be an absolute masterpiece. Peele made his debut as a feature film director with the satirical horror classic, which earned him an Academy Award for his original screenplay. He has made two more movies since then, and while they’ve both been well received, it’s generally believed that Get Out remains the best of the bunch. Peele was scheduled to release his fourth feature film in October, but Universal pulled it from its release schedule with no new date announced.
Peele’s ambition has clearly increased over the course of his filmmaking career. Get Out was a largely contained horror movie, while his sophomore feature, Us, was more visually flamboyant and dense with lore. It was his third feature, however, that indicated Peele’s obsession with craft. The movie in question recently witnessed a viewership spike at home, four years after it was given a lavish theatrical release — the sort that** Christopher Nolan** and Denis Villeneuve are able to guarantee for their epics.
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
We’re talking, of course, about Nope. A sci-fi spectacle about humanity’s obsession with spectacle, Nope starred** Daniel Kaluuya**, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun. It grossed approximately $170 million worldwide — the lowest haul for any of Peele’s movies — against a reported budget of $68 million. Nope was shot on 65mm and IMAX film by Hoyte van Hoytema, who has served as Nolan’s cinematographer for over a decade. The Oscar-winning DP filmed key sequences day-for-night, and even accomplished the rare feat of filming alien innards on IMAX. The movie received mostly positive reviews and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 83% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Admirable for its originality and ambition even when its reach exceeds its grasp, Nope adds Spielbergian spectacle to Jordan Peele’s growing arsenal.” According to FlixPatrol, Nope was among the most-watched movies on the global HBO Max chart this week. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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