Having scored huge critical and commercial success with his feature directorial debut Get Out – including Oscar nominations for Best Pictures, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at next month’s Academy Awards – Jordan Peele has now called time on his acting career in order to focus fully on his directing ambitions.
Recently, Peele has discussed the possibility of a sequel to Get Out, but before then he’s focussing on another as-yet-unrevealed project, which he has teased during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter:
“You know, I think it’s important to focus on stories that are true to me. My next film, I am currently writing it and I’ll direct for Universal this year; I’m just trying to entertain myself again. One thing I know is that this is genre; and playing around with the thriller, horror, action, fun, genre of intrigue is my favorite. That’s my sweet spot. So I think tonally it should resemble Get Out. That said, I want to make a completely different movie. I want to address something different than race in the next one.”
Via THR
