It’s always exciting when a promising filmmaker follows up a successful debut – Christopher Nolan’s sophomore effort was “Memento,” Quentin Tarantino followed up “Reservoir Dogs” with “Pulp Fiction,” and Ryan Coogler succeeded “Fruitvale Station” with “Creed.” However, while each of these great directors had immense success with their first films, none, if any director, came out of the gate stronger than Jordan Peele, whose film “Get Out” was the breakout hit of 2017, making its budget back more than fifty times over and garnering Peele the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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After producing Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” (which will most likely pick up a number of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture), as well as preparing for a number of shows under Monkeypaw Productions (including the CBS All Access reboot of “The Twilight Zone”), Peele is jumping back into the director’s chair for his second feature, “Us,” which has its first trailer out. You can read the synopsis below, which seems to put Peele’s now-signature twist on the home invasion genre, much as he flipped the archetypes of “The Stepford Wives” for “Get Out.”
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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.
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Nyong’o, despite making strong appearances in franchise films like “Black Panther,” has yet to replicate her immense success in her debut performance in “12 Years a Slave,” for which she won Best Supporting Actress, but it’s not hard to assume that Peele has written a meaty role for her to fill.
“US” arrives in theaters on March 15, 2019. You can watch the new trailer below.
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