Jordan Peele will be taking another plunge into the sunken place for his next film. The Get Out director took to Twitter to announce his next film will be called Us. The film will star Lupita Nyong’o, and Elisabeth Moss and Winston Duke are under consideration for lead roles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Universal Pictures announced the release date will be Friday March 15th 2019 in the US. No UK date has thus far been confirmed.
Peele, who won an Oscar for shedding a light on hidden racial horrors as writer and director of Get Out, will write and direct the new film too. Us will be produced by Ian Cooper and Peele for Monkeypaw Productions alongside Sean McKittrick and Jason Blum.
There are no details on Us, but it will reportedly be about a black couple, who will be played by Duke and Nyong’o, and a white couple, one of which will be played by Moss.
Peele also dropped the first poster for the film, which you can see here:
According to reports, Nyong’o is already in negotiations for the film, Duke and Moss are in earlier stages of talks. Nyong’o won an Oscar for her role in 12 Years a Slave. She was last seen in Marvel’s Black Panther. She will next star in TriStar’s The Woman King, opposite Viola Davis.
Duke is hot off his breakthrough role of M’Baku in Black Panther. He also appeared in Avenger: Infinity War and acted on the series Person of Interest and Modern Family.
Moss currently stars on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, in its second season. She is currently shooting Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell . She is next set to star with Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in the mob film The Kitchen.
More on Us as we hear it.