Palmer is confirmed to star in the secret project, while Kaluuya is entering the final negotiations.
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The cast is arriving for Jordan Peele’s new secret film, which Universal Pictures announced in November 2020. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Keke Palmer has signed on to star in the film, while Daniel Kaluuya “is in negotiations to meet with the filmmaker. “. Kaluuya, currently winning buzz at the Oscars for his performance in “Judas and the Black Messiah”, was the main actor in the work of directing Peele’s innovative film, “Get Out”. Kaluuya was nominated for an Oscar for “Get Out”, while Peele won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and was also nominated for Best Director.
According to Collider’s report on Peele’s new film, Palmer is “playing the film’s antagonist”. The publication added: “They rated Jesse Plemons and Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out as the two stars of the untitled film. Sources say the Kaluuya deal must be closed, but Plemons has a programming conflict that will prevent his participation. “
“Get Out” debuted in February 2017 with acclaim and a big box office return, becoming one of the definitive horror films of the century. “Get Out” raised $ 255 million in a production budget of $ 4.5 million. The film received a total of four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Peele’s nomination in the director’s category made him only the fifth black filmmaker in history to compete for the Oscar for Best Director.
Peele followed “Get Out” with “Us”, which corresponded to the worldwide gross revenue of $ 255 million from “Get Out”. As a more polarizing effort between critics and fans, “Us” attracted passionate fans and universal acclaim for Lupita Nyong’o’s two main performances. Nyong’o received the award for Best Actress from the New York Film Critics Circle. Shortly after the release of “Get Out,” Peele said he already had four additional genre films ready to be released in the next decade. “Us” was one of those projects, and it looks like this mysterious new project is next.
“I have four other social thrillers that I want to reveal in the next decade,” said Peele at the time. “The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we are together. I have been working on these premises about these different social demons, these innately human monsters that are woven into the fabric of how we think and interact, and each of my films is going to be about a different one of these demons. “
Universal Pictures has set a theatrical release date for July 22, 2022 for Peele’s film, which remains untitled for now.
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