‘Nope’ Writer/Director Jordan Peele on the Importance of Animals and That Missing Crab
thewrap.comNope” is writer/director Jordan Peele’s latest genre-bending experiment in terror and it is certainly his most ambitious.The story of OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer), part of a family of Black stunt performers, who are menaced by a UFO following the mysterious death of their father (Keith David), expands the scope of his previous films, gently nudging it into summer blockbuster territory. (Steven Yeun plays the proprietor of a western theme park next door to the Haywood ranch who has secrets of his own.) Of course, this being a Jordan Peele movie, it is also ambitiously structured, provocative, and symbolically rich.We got to chat briefly with Peele about a missing shot from the teaser trailer (of a crab crawling over a miniature living room), the importance of animals in his movies (never more important than in “Nope”) and what some of his inspirations were for his big summer movie.You must know that people are going to pick these things apart.
There’s a crab in the teaser trailer that isn’t in the movie …Oh my God. See, you go deep. I’m so glad you noticed that.
There are sometimes scenes that have to change and have to go away. I’m not going to tell you because I want the mythology of this movie to grow.
And I want all these stories about what’s in, what’s out, the process… I want it to grow, and I want it to be a big thing. So I’m going to leave it somewhat mysterious and not go too far into it.
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