The horror auteur’s third feature film is getting the IMAX treatment for a good reason.
Jordan Peele’s most ambitious upcoming feature film Nope is unlike any other of his films. This bigger adventure is complemented by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema’s dynamic and naturalistic visual language that reminds us of something familiar yet distant.
Nope follows California ranch-owning siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer) as they attempt to capture video evidence of an unidentified flying object that affects humans’ and animals’ behavior. This larger-than-life story could only be made for the big screen, which meant filming on a camera that was designed to fully immerse the audience.
Peele mentions in a brand-new featurette that Nope is all about spectacle, visually and thematically, and elaborates that this can only be achieved with IMAX. The film is specifically made to be seen in IMAX, making it the first “horror epic” filmed with the legendary 15/65mm cameras for the larger and wider IMAX screens.
Check out the featurette here!
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
