Deadline is reporting that Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico) and Elizabeth Debicki (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) have signed on to star in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, a new straight-to-series drama from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot. Based on the 2016 novel […]
Jordan Peele has reportedly pitched a Gargoyles movie to Disney
After scoring a huge critical and commercial success (and an Oscar) for last year’s hit horror-thriller Get Out, one would assume that studios would be chomping at the bit to work with actor-turned-filmmaker Jordan Peele. However, it seems that Disney are reluctant to move ahead with one project that Peele has pitched to them – […]
Amazon picks up Jordan Peel’s Nazi hunter series The Hunt
Amazon has just placed a series order for an original idea from Get Out director Jordan Peele. Deadline reports The Hunt is a vengeance-driven Nazi hunt series that Amazon has ordered for a 10-episode first season and will be produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment. The series was created by David Weil, who will write and executive […]
Cast, poster, and title revealed for Jordan Peele’s next film
Universal Pictures have announced that the next film from Get Out director Jordan Peele will be titled Us, and it will hit US cinema screens on Friday March 5th 2019. As well as releasing this poster, which suggests that Us will be in the same genre as his Oscar winning blockbuster, by calling it “a […]
Jordan Peele producing John and Lorena Bobbitt series for Amazon
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Jordan Peele (Get Out) is set to produce a new four-part docudrama series for Amazon entitled Lorena, which will explore the infamous 1993 case of John Wayne Bobbitt and his wife Lorena. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, Lorena severed her husband’s penis while he was sleeping and discarded it […]
Key and Peele to reunite for Henry Selick’s Wendell and Wild
Following on from his Oscar success with Get Out, Jordan Peele is set to reunite with his longtime comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key as the duo lend their voices to Wendell and Wild, a new stop motion animated film from Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach). The project is based on […]
Jordan Peele teases his Get Out follow-up
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 […]
Jordan Peele “seriously considering” a sequel to Get Out
Actor and comedian-turned-filmmaker Jordan Peele certainly scored with his feature directorial debut Get Out, with the Blumhouse-produced horror proving to be a hit with audiences, critics, and even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, who nominated it for four Oscars – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya). […]
Jordan Peele says he quit acting because of The Emoji Movie
Last month, comedian-turned-actor-turned director Jordan Peele announced that he was quitting acting, preferring instead to focus on his career behind the camera after enjoying huge critical success with his feature directorial debut Get Out. Attending the Directors Guild of America Awards this past weekend, where he was honoured with the First Time Feature Award for Get […]
Guillermo del Toro wins the DGA Award for The Shape of Water
Having enjoyed success at the Golden Globes and PGA Awards, Guillermo del Toro added the Directors Guild of America’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award to his mantelpiece last night at the DGA Awards, putting the filmmaker firmly in the driving seat for Best Director at the Oscars with his fantasy romance The Shape […]