'Us' Trailer: Jordan Peele’s New Nightmare Looks Even Crazier Than ‘Get Out’

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.

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.”