Jordan Peele, the American actor, screenwriter, director, and comedian, currently doesn’t give much thought to what the future entails when it comes to his career in Hollywood. However, he is keen to take considerable time to think about his next bright idea which he thinks will come naturally to him, perhaps over a cup of coffee.
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Nope is currently doing very well at the box office and has already earned an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film, which stars the brilliant Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, also broke the $100 million mark at the domestic box office, making it the director’s fourth hit after get out (2017), We (2019), and candy man (2021).
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Jordan Peele talks about his work as a director
Nope has been the subject of mass delusions since the film’s theatrical premiere. The film has been called a spectacle, praised for its stoicism and originality, and its oddly comedic and ambitious narrative. Simultaneously, however, Peele’s craft had to bear the brunt of a negative response which was overcome in the face of his higher success rate.
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While discussing the terms of the five-year contract with Universal Pictures in 2019, the filmmaker also discusses what the stories of each of his films are trying to capture.
“The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we come together. I worked on these premises about these different social demons, these naturally 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 social demons . demons.
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Jordan Peele’s plans for his future Hollywood movies
Nope wasn’t all sunshine and gold, as some of the criticism leveled at Peele’s artistic execution got the better of the jugular. It has been called divisive, cynical money-grabbing, and although the most confident and assured of all his works, somewhat monotonous, unimaginative and “an unfortunate case of substance hype” [Carla May, Culture Mix]. Undaunted by critics, audiences have rallied behind the Oscar’s disguised preference for a pattern of racial prejudice that has manifested itself in recent years.
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Amid the controversial reviews that his latest project has become the subject of, Jordan Peele relaxes and talks about his vision for what his next Hollywood projects would look like.
“I don’t know what’s next, there are a few ideas that filter through. I need to sink into the world a bit and allow the world to kind of tell me which one is next. So that’s what my next two months will be spent doing… Sitting, watching, waiting, watching my coffee.
If you watch good movies, you will be inspired, even if it has nothing to do with what you want to do. It will work for me. Sometimes inspiration comes instantly, and sometimes it comes for a long time. I need to watch and listen, I can’t just express myself all the time. You must listen.
Nope is now playing in theaters around the world.
Source: Empire
