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What’s a bad miracle? If the trailer for Jordan Peele's latest horror outing is anything to go by, not the most relaxing way to spend an afternoon.
Few directors have put their stamp on a genre as quickly as Peele has with horror, with both Get Out and Us the American director lured audiences into strange worlds where a surprise twist makes everything, horrifyingly and suddenly, make sense. This summer, the Peele cinematic universe is set to expand with Nope, the Oscar-winning auteur's third feature film, in which residents of an isolated town witness a terrifying and abnormal event.
In keeping with Peele's previous movies, the trailer released yesterday keeps the details of that abnormal event under wraps. What can be discerned is darkness closing in, the sky roiling dramatically and wind sucked from the atmosphere. What on earth (or another nearby planet) is going on? Here are our wild predictions based on the very scientific criteria of a vague hunch.
Aliens
Naturally with Jordan Peele we aren't going to be talking about your classic, garden-variety extraterrestrial being, but it would be remiss of us not to entertain the possibility that the giant abstraction in the sky is a sign of some other life out there about to descend from on high. Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed there is a The Great British Bake Off-esque string of bunting trailing from the sky that feels reminiscent of the linked hands that join up across the earth in Us, perhaps suggesting we are getting a second visit from the tethered?
Climate related catastrophe
Nope has been pitched as Peele's take on the classic summer movie, and as you might have seen in the recent IPCC report, summers are increasingly becoming dangerously hot. The trailer does show the elements swirling ominously in a way that suggests we have grievously harmed Mother Earth and must now welcome the consequences. It's unlikely to be an asteroid, á la Adam McKay's recent Don't Look Up, but an especially twisted tornado which splits the sky open to reveal a portal to another universe? Maybe baby.
Kanye West and Julia Fox
There's a touch of the Ye dramatics about the overhead omen in the trailer, a scene with the production value of one of Kanye's Sunday service videos. Given West spent the weekend emailing his intern to mock up a Marvel poster portraying his ex wife and new squeeze as villains, it wouldn't surprise us if he rounded off the weekend asking Jordan Peele to put together a teaser for the announcement to his engagement to Julia Fox.
Wordle's new platform
In a bid to quash rumours that The New York Times are putting the game app behind a paywall, have Wordle partnered with Peele to reveal their new platform will project your incorrect guesses into the sky above? (The words NOPE displayed with every wrong guess.)
The next Coronavirus variant
Too soon?
The Sue Gray report
By summer 2022 it's just possible that the final.FINAL.docx version of Sue Gray's report on Boris Johnson's summer of love as the bodies piled high will be dropped, and what better way to release it than onto the literal cloud via Jordan Peele's forthcoming flick. When asked about the possibility that Peele's latest film contained the full Sue Gray report, Culture secretary Nadine Dorries said she could neither confirm nor deny, but added she had always admired his work on Driving Miss Daisy.
Nothing
As in, nope!
