Jordan Peele won’t have one, but two movies in 2024: an untitled horror thriller on Sept. 27 from his Monkeypaw Productions and a fourth coming out on Christmas Day that year. To be more specific, while the third film is from his production company, the fourth the Oscar winner is directing.
No details were provided by Universal in regards to who is writing or directing the third film.
Peele’s sci-fi movie Nope was one of the last tentpoles of summer 2022 before the business went into a dry spell at the box office; the pic opening to $44.3M and grossing $123.2M domestic, $171.2M worldwide. The Christmas 2024 release will rep Peele’s fourth directed title after his Oscar winning hit Get Out ($225.7M WW off a $4.5M budget) and 2019 horror title Us ($256M WW off a $20M production cost).
In regards to th Sept 27, 2024 release date, Universal previously had that reserved for an animated event film. Peele’s fourth directorial at the end of that year will debut five days after Avatar 3 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Peele won an Oscar for Original Screenplay in 2018 for Get Out which counted four Oscar nominations including Best Picture.