It was also named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the American Film Institute. It grossed $172 million worldwide, and received praise for its ambition, performances, cinematography, themes, visual style, musical score, and Peele's direction. Nope premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on July 18, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 22, 2022, by Universal Pictures. Filming began in June 2021 in northern Los Angeles County, and wrapped in November. Yeun was cast the next month, and Peele revealed the title in July 2021. Palmer and Kaluuya joined in February 2021. He cited King Kong (1933), Jurassic Park (1993), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Jaws (1975), Signs (2002), and The Wizard of Oz (1939) as his main inspirations. Peele officially announced his then-untitled third directorial film in November 2020.
Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse- wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Agua Dulce, California.
Nope (stylized in all caps) is a 2022 American science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Jordan Peele, under his and Ian Cooper's Monkeypaw Productions banner.
