Nope (2022)
- The original script for Nope was written over a decade before production finally began in 2022.
- The incredible score for Nope was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Jordan Peele originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Nope is a 2022 American science fiction horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as OJ and Emerald Haywood, siblings who run a horse ranch for Hollywood productions and discover a mysterious object in the clouds above their property that is responsible for bizarre phenomena β power outages, animals behaving strangely, and objects falling from the sky. The Haywoods realize the object is not a UFO but a predatory, organic creature disguised as a cloud that feeds on anything that looks at it, and they attempt to capture photographic proof of its existence for fame and fortune.
Jordan Peele's third film was his most ambitious, blending spectacle-driven science fiction with meditations on Hollywood's exploitation of spectacle, the entertainment industry's treatment of animals, and humanity's compulsive need to watch even when looking away would save their lives. The alien creature's design β a massive, undulating organism that unfurled into a terrifying, flag-like form β was one of the most original monster designs in modern cinema. Nope earned $171 million worldwide on a $68 million budget.
