In last month’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, Jordan Peele revealed that he was developing and potentially directing a horror film for Darko Entertainment. “That’s a straight horror movie. I want to be essentially a thriller director,” Peele said. “I’m a big fan of horror movies. Rosemary’s Baby, Stepford Wives — I’m sort of taking a lead from that genre of film. It’ll be, just, very cool.” Peele recently shared more details on the project with Playboy:
“I’ve been spending the first half of my career focusing on comedy but my goal, in all honesty, is to write and direct horror movies. I have one that I’m working on with Darko Entertainment called Get Out – I don’t want to say too much about it, but it is one of the very, very few horror movies that does jump off of racial fears. That to me is a world that hasn’t been explored. Specifically, the fears of being a black man today. The fears of being any person who feels like they’re a stranger in any environment that is foreign to them. It deals with a protagonist that I don’t see in horror movies.”
In the meantime, check out this Halloween-themed clip from Key and Peele where the guys talk all about horror films:
