It's an animal, and it could kill you—but it can be tamed and worked with, if you know what you're doing. The film's score was composed by Michael Abels, who had previously worked with Peele on Get Out (2017) and Us (2019). Centering around a family ranch owned by the Haywoods, OJ Haywood Jr (Daniel Kaluuya) and his father work on a horse ranch that trains their animals for film and tv productions.

Despite there being extensive spoilers everywhere about what OJ is up against, it’s best to see Nope unprepared and spend a healthy amount of time wondering “WTF is going on? You Can (Not) Advance, [with] Jordan Peele [ mak[ing] his fandom of the series clear on Twitter in the days leading up to the film's release. In fact, I left the theatre irritated that I had fallen for the positive reviews, and wondering if I can ask for my money back.

During filming of an episode, Gordy reacted violently to the sound of popping balloons and attacked at least two of his human co-stars, but ultimately left Jupe completely unharmed, before being fatally shot by police. On April 27, additional footage was shown to around 3,000 exhibition insiders at CinemaCon; Peele asked attendees to be discreet and not reveal any detail about the story. Updated daily and in real-time, we track all high-def disc news and release dates, and review the latest disc titles. For OJ and Emerald's outfits, Bovaird went against the clichés of how horse ranchers would dress and gave them casual clothes, an example being OJ's orange The Scorpion King crew hoodie, along with portraying Emerald as "tomboy-like" by having her wear clothing that she and OJ may have "left at the ranch.

Nope doesn’t have a plot so much as a series of happenings that spill out in an impressionistic and arbitrary way. After a freak accident, OJ's sister Em (Keke Palmer) comes to visit where they discover something massive moving in the sky.

When watching Gordy move about the wrecked set of Gordy's Home, Jupe notices one of his co-star's shoes inexplicably standing upright; as an adult, Jupe has the shoe on display in his room of Gordy's Home mementos.

On April 16, the NBA Playoffs cross-promoted the film with a clip starring NBA player Stephen Curry. As with the brilliantly horrifying sitcom bloodbath that serves as Nope’s attention-grabbing curtain-raiser, the film too often seems to be heading somewhere extraordinary, only to disappear into an ambitious conceptual hole that, while occasionally startling, is ultimately less than the sum of its parts.While this might be his most bombastic film in terms of what he’s attempting to it, it’s also maybe his most understated in its messaging. David Sims of The Atlantic wrote that " Nope is tinged with the acidic satire that suffused [Peele's] previous two movies, as Peele examines why the easiest way to process horror these days is to turn it into breathtaking entertainment. On October 1, 2019, Universal Pictures announced a five-year exclusive production partnership with Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. I'm sorry if this opinion of mine is a moment too late, but the other trailers are far too spoilery.