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Jason Blum says Jordan Peele “flirting with the idea” of Get Out 2

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Jordan Peele scored a huge success with his first directorial offering, the horror-thriller Get Out, which proved to be a smash hit with fans and critics alike, and saw the actor and comedian receiving the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Peele is currently hard at […]

Lovecraft Country adds Courtney B. Vance, Elizabeth Debicki and Aunjanue Ellis

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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

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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

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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 […]

Jordan Peele producing John and Lorena Bobbitt series for Amazon

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]