The Making of NOPE with Jordan Peele, Keke Palmer, and More

Following a special 70mm screening of NOPE during our Jordan Peele curated series, The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice, NOPE director Jordan Peele, lead Keke Palmer, producer Ian Cooper, editor Nicholas Monsour composer Michael Abels joined FLC for a Q A about the making of the film. Moderated by FLC Programmer Tyler Wilson. Jordan Peeles latest, most assured scifihorror outing transposes the alieninvasion thriller to Americas wideopen west. NOPE concerns the family of Haywood Hollywood Horses, a California horse farm whose owner (Keith David) dies mysteriously and bequeaths the family business to his two children: the devoted but taciturn O. J. (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer), an aspiring filmmakeractor far less interested than her brother in horse wrangling. Not long after the siblings bear witness to an uncanny discovery above their childhood home, they hatch a plan to obtain video evidence of it, while their neighbor Jupe (Steven Yeun)a former child star