So there it is. The final trailer for Nope has just been released, and its thumbnail below just comes right out with it and proves that the film is centred around horrifying UFO activity.
Mystery was an important quality in director Jordan Peele’s previous terrifiers Get Out and Us, but a sci-fi secret this big and spectacular couldn’t stay hidden for much longer. Nope is now screening in Australian cinemas, and our recently published review urges you to go see it on the biggest screen possible.
Tony Stamp claims that not all of the film’s big choices will work for everyone, “but its main asset is how straight-up weird a lot of its elements are.” Some of Peele’s most bizarre ideas are suggested in the trailer below, such as the disturbing backstory of Steven Yeun’s character, a former child star who nows runs a dinky Western-themed amusement park.
Lucky Steve Newall got to speak with Yeun and leads Keke Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya, hearing all about the brother-sister dynamic at the heart of this spooky spectacle. Palmer said acting as Kaluuya’s annoying little sister was “the easiest part” of making the film: “we have a natural chemistry together, for whatever reason. I love picking on Daniel, he’s the funnest person to try and get out of being calm, because he is so relaxed. I think that’s the same way with [their characters] Emerald and OJ.” The siblings have plenty of reason to be stressed out in this trailer, though.
Still grieving the loss of their father (Keith David) and the dilapidation of the family horse-training ranch, Emerald and OJ are thrilled when it seems that alien activity is taking place in the cowboy skies overhead. But their attempts to capture the thingy on camera and get rich off it will soon give way to a greater need: survival.
If you want as much context for the film as possible without giving away too much of its nitty-gritty details, be sure to also check out our chat with Peele. He’s an extremely passionate dude, and here he goes into why he wanted to make Nope in the first place. “I always look for something that doesn’t exist—for a film that I wish I could see for the first time”, he explains. “I was like, ‘I’ve got to make this. In fact, I have a responsibility to movies to make this movie’.”
And now we discerning horror fans have a responsibility to see it—say yep to Nope.
