New Synopsis For Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ Follow-Up ‘Us’ Reveals A Fairly Basic Horror Premise

Academy Award winner Jordan Peele is about to unleash his second film on the world, simply titled “Us.” Even though, after the monster success of “Get Out,” the filmmaker has been attached to a “Candyman” reboot, “Toy Story 4,” and about 4000 TV series, the biggest project that fans are anticipating most of all is his follow-up to his directorial debut. And outside of a poster and a cast, there’s not much known about what we can expect with “Us.” Well, until now.

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Thanks to recent test screening invitations, it appears we have our first plot synopsis for the film, and while it’s being reported as completely legit, we find that this plot description seems to shy away from most of the details and focuses more on a generic outline.

Here’s the synopsis (per /Film):

A mother (Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o from Black Panther, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and 12 Years a Slave) and a father (Winston Duke from Black Panther) take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends (including Emmy winner Elizabeth Moss from TV series The Handmaid’s Tale). But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

We have no doubt that Jordan Peele is going to add multiple layers to what seems to be, on paper at least, a familiar story. Obviously, if you take out all the subtext and nuance of “Get Out,” you’re left with a film that can be summed up as a body-horror film where old people put their brains in more healthy younger folks. Of course, that would overly-simplify the film and leave out everything that makes “Get Out” as incredible as it is.

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So, we can fully expect that with “Us,” the plot is just the jumping off point to something much deeper and socially conscious. Well, there’s always the chance that Peele has decided the best way to follow-up an Oscar-winning film is to just make a schlocky genre film with no subtext and a completely overused plot. Eh, not likely.

“Us” is scheduled to arrive in theaters on March 15, 2019.

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