What do we know about Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele’s next movie? Well, next to nothing, really. But we do know it’s new release date. Once scheduled for Christmas 2024— replaced by Universal with Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” movie instead for Focus Features— Peele revealed on Twitter the new date for his film today: October 23, 2026, which at least puts it into the spooky horror season he’s known for.
But as for the film’s contents, the title, a plot, anything? Nada. Universal first announced the movie in March 2023 with no other details other than its Xmas 2024 release date. By the end of the year, however, it was clear it would not arrive on time.
Still, given his horror/thriller movies with a social/thoughtful bent, “Get Out,” “Us” and “Nope,” it’s expected and speculated that Peele will stay within that genre—perhaps the October 2026 release date enforcing that idea even a little bit more.
Earlier this year, Peele vaguely teased the film and suggested that the 2023 writer’s and acting strike delayed it.
“This has been…obviously, it’s been an interesting year because the writer’s strike had had me in a state of listening, and that’s where I need to be,” Peele said on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast when asked about his new movie in January. “I do feel like my next project is clear to me, and I’m psyched that I have another film that, you know, could be my favorite movie if I make it right.”
Other guesses of what could be part of it. Well, he’s said he’d like to work with “Nope” actor Keke Palmer again. And he’s teased there could be more stories told within the “Nope” universe, but other than that, we’re just taking wild stabs into the dark.
Peele reportedly met with Marvel recently about potentially directing their next “X-Men” movie but supposedly passed on the opportunity (if the rumor is even true), which doesn’t feel like much of a surprise.
Peele has been nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for “Get Out” (2017), winning the latter, and another Best Picture nomination for producing Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” (2018).
2026 is pretty far out, so right now, there’s not a lot of release date competition. The closest films in proximity to Peele’s new date are “The Batman: Part II” (Oct 2), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2 Movie” (Oct 9) and a mystery date for an untitled Marvel movie on November 6, that could get dropped now that Marvel is scaling back the number of movies they release a year. Hopefully, details arrive sooner rather than later.
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