Nope (2022)

== Article ==
Nope is a 2022 American neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Jordan Peele, under his and Ian Cooper's Monkeypaw Productions banner. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object. Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David.
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. It has grossed $171 million worldwide, and received praise for its ambition, performances, themes, cinematography, visual style, musical score, and Peele's direction. It was also named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the American Film Institute.
 
==Overview==
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
==Synopsis==
In Agua Dulce, California, the Haywood family trains and handles horses for film and television productions. One day, metallic objects fall out of the sky, and Otis Haywood Sr. is hit in the eye and killed by a falling nickel, which is presumed to have fallen out of an airplane.
Six months later, his children, Otis "OJ" Haywood Jr. and Emerald "Em" Haywood, are fired from the set of a TV commercial after their horse, Lucky, reacts violently to its own reflection in a handheld mirror. To keep the business afloat, OJ sells some of the horses to Ricky "Jupe" Park, who operates a Western theme park called Jupiter's Claim. Jupe also exploits his past trauma as a child actor, specifically when a chimpanzee named Gordy maimed his costars on the set of a sitcom, but left him unharmed.
One night, the Haywoods notice their electricity fluctuating and their horses vanishing and violently reacting to an unknown presence. They discover an unidentified flying object (UFO) that has been taking their horses and spitting out the inorganic matter, which OJ concludes to have caused their father's death. The siblings decide to document and sell evidence of the UFO's existence, and recruit Fry's Electronics employee Angel Torres to set up surveillance cameras. The UFO arrives a second time and abducts a horse named Clover, as well as a decoy snatched by Em from Jupiter's Claim.
The next day, Em attempts to recruit famed cinematographer Antlers Holst to help them record the UFO. Holst declines, telling Em that chasing wealth and fame is a "dream you will never wake up from." Angel then arrives and reveals to the Haywoods that a cloud captured on camera never moves, which OJ suspects is the UFO's hiding place.
Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim and plans to use Lucky as bait to lure out the UFO, which he has been feeding the Haywoods' horses to for months, in front of the audience. The UFO arrives early and devours Jupe and the entire audience, leaving only Lucky alive. OJ, attempting to retrieve Lucky confirms that the UFO is not a spaceship, but a highly territorial predatory organism. After the creature showers the Haywood household with the detritus (wheelchairs, keys, coins) and the regurgitated remains of the crowd, OJ realizes that it only attacks people who look directly at it. The Haywoods and Angel escape the house unharmed, and OJ devises a plan to record it. Em and Angel are hesitant until the former receives a call from Holst, who now agrees to help Em after seeing TV news coverage of the Jupiter's Claim incident. OJ names the organism "Jean Jacket", after a horse that Em was promised to train.
To circumvent Jean Jacket's effects on electronics, Holst brings a hand-cranked IMAX film camera to capture footage. With Angel, the group devises a plan to bait Jean Jacket, with a field of electrically-powered tube man props to help them deduce its location in the sky. However, a paparazzo trespasses onto the field and is thrown from his electric motorcycle when it shuts down near Jean Jacket, which devours him. Though Holst captures footage of Jean Jacket, his obsession with "the impossible shot" results in him being devoured alongside his camera, forcing the remaining three to flee. Angel survives an attack from Jean Jacket by being wrapped in a tarp and barbed wire, causing the creature to unfurl from its saucer shape to a jellyfish-like form.
OJ intentionally looks directly at Jean Jacket, allowing it to pull him towards its mouth so Em can escape to Jupiter's Claim on the motorcycle. There, she releases the park's large helium balloon mascot of Jupe. Jean Jacket attempts to feed on the balloon while Em uses an attraction's analog camera to photograph Jean Jacket before the balloon pops, brutally killing it in a gory explosion. With the picture as proof of the creature's existence and reporters arriving nearby, Em sees an unharmed OJ and Lucky standing outside of Jupiter's Claim.
==Cast==
 	 	 	 	 	
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood 	Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood 	Daniel Kaluuya as OJ Haywood 	Daniel Kaluuya as OJ Haywood 	Brandon Perea as Angel Torres	Brandon Perea as Angel Torres
 	 	 	 	 	
Steven Yeun as Ricky 'Jupe' Park	Steven Yeun as Ricky 'Jupe' Park	Michael Wincott as Antlers Holst	Michael Wincott as Antlers Holst	 	
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== Trailer ==
==Filming locations==
Nope was filmed in Agua Dulce, Firestone Ranch, Fry's Electronics (Closed), Los Angeles and Santa Clarita.
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