A new poster for director Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror movie Nope has arrived to tell us … absolutely nothing more about the Get Out filmmaker’s mysterious new project. The latest poster for Nope echos much of what we have seen so far in both the earlier poster and the recent trailer, as a threat from the sky causes bizarre happenings to a small Californian town.

Released via the official Monkeypaw Production Twitter account, the newly released poster shows a horse being taken up into the sky by an invisible force, and undoubtedly further confirms the theory that Nope will center on some sort of alien invasion. Along with the poor, no doubt frightened horse, several items are also being levitated, including the creepy alien-like dolls glimpsed in last month’s trailer.

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Much like both Get Out and Us before it, Jordan Peele is keeping as many details surrounding Nope as secret as possible. So far, all we really know about the movie is that it will follow several residents of an isolated town in California, among them ranch owners James and Jill Haywood, who witness a mysterious and abnormal event. As a certain Ancient Aliens ufologist would say, “ALIENS.”

The trailer also asks, “What’s a bad miracle?” and while we wait to find out exactly what that ominous question really means, it can only have something to do with extra-terrestrials at this point, right? Nope finds Academy Award-winning director Jordan Peele once again looking to redefine and disrupt modern horror, much like he did with both Get Out and Us. This time though, Peele will attempt to re-imagine the summer movie as well with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope.

The movie reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) and Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions.

Like Get Out and Us, Nope Will Contain a Contemporary Social Message

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Just like he did with Get Out and Us, Peele will once again use the frame of the horror genre to comment on contemporary social issues. “I have four other social thrillers that I want to unveil in the next decade,” Peele previously said of his future original projects. “The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of especially when we get together. I’ve been working on these premises about these different social demons, these innately human monsters that are woven into the fabric of how we think and how we interact, and each one of my movies is going to be about a different one of these social demons.”

Nope is scheduled to be released on July 22, 2022, by Universal Pictures.