Earlier this month, we acquired some troubling information that Jordan Peele‘s fourth function movie, beforehand scheduled for launch in October 2026, had been faraway from the calendar.
Selection reported the guild strikes had one thing to do with it when it was first dated for Christmas 2024, and although Peele prompt he knew precisely what he had in thoughts for his subsequent film, he’s nonetheless at work on the mission and has but to roll cameras.
So what has Peele been as much as? Past the discharge of the football-themed horror film “Him” that Peele produced, we acquired a style of one other secretive horror mission on Tuesday with an unlikely collaborator: Hideo Kojima.
Kojima is the creator of the traditional “Metallic Gear Strong” franchise, but additionally the “Dying Stranding” video games that IndieWire has been huge followers of for his or her putting cinematic qualities. His new mission, through which he collaborated with Peele, is “OD,” and the sport’s first teaser shares only one terrifying scene from the first-person viewpoint. The sport stars Sophia Lillis, Udo Kier, and Hunter Schafer, and we’re even curious if that’s the solid for Peele’s subsequent movie.
The teaser, beneath, is fairly creepy. It exhibits a playable sequence through which the protagonist, through a first-person perspective, is given a purple card with directions via a door, then proceeds to a shrine of candles that the participant should mild one after the other, with every creating screams and loud knocks at a door as you proceed. We then reduce to a close-up of Lillis as an enormous, darkish determine approaches her and clutches her face in monstrous grey palms.
Sadly, it’s exhausting to know the way a lot, if any, of Peele’s particular fingerprints are on this explicit teaser. The trailer doesn’t have his identify anyplace, and Kojima, in a livestream asserting this mission, mentioned that “there’s a distinct type of worry Jordan will do; mine is the worry of the knock. I’m actually afraid of the knock sound!” It means that Peele’s contribution is perhaps for a wholly totally different chapter of the sport.
Regardless, the Kojima-Peele collab is an thrilling one. A few of the commenters on the trailer alluded to a sport just like the universally acclaimed “Elden Ring,” which George R. R. Martin co-wrote and is now itself being tailored right into a film. Peele was additionally at one level rumored to be directing a movie adaptation of “Dying Stranding,” however “Pig” and “A Quiet Place: Day One” filmmaker Michael Sarnoski will deal with that as a substitute.
The opposite, extra astute comparability is perhaps to a different sport Kojima co-produced with legendary horror director Guillermo del Toro. The sport was referred to as “P.T.,” and it was meant to be a “playable teaser” (P.T.) for a brand new installment within the “Silent Hill” online game franchise. Launched in 2014 without cost on PlayStation 4, the temporary sport drew vital acclaim, however when the deliberate franchise was canceled, distributor Konami famously eliminated the sport from the PlayStation Retailer and made it unattainable to reinstall.
For that cause, commenters on the trailer for “OD” joked that the title truly interprets to “Solely Demo.”
Take a look at the teaser for “OD – Knock” beneath.
