Keke Palmer will star in Jordan Peele's next thriller

Jordan Peele is working on another horror film that is sure to entertain, terrify and make audiences think, and he’s bringing Keke Palmer along for the scary ride. The actor, singer and TV host has been cast as the lead in Peele’s upcoming film, which is set to be released in July 2022. Mark your calendars and prepare your favourite blanket to be held over your eyes (but only for like, a second).

Peele’s upcoming film is shrouded in secrecy, but we do know that the comedian will be writing and directing the project and producing the film along with Ian Cooper under the pair’s Monkeypaw Productions company. It’s unclear whether the new film will also follow in the same brilliant horror genre as Peele’s first two films, including 2017’s Get Out and 2019’s Us, which each made more than $255 million at the box office. If it’s not broke… why stop giving us nightmares now?

Palmer is no stranger to the horror genre. The actor spent two seasons starring as Zayday Williams in Ryan Murphy’s slasher comedy Scream Queens from 2015 to 2016. Showing her impressive range, Palmer went on to star as exotic dancer Mercedes opposite Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu in the critically acclaimed 2019 biopic Hustlers. The multi-talented entertainer has recently been flexing her hosting duties, including her work anchoring the 2020 virtual MTV VMA Awards and earning a Daytime Emmy nomination along with her Strahan, Sara and Keke co-hosts Sara Haines and Michael Strahan.

Most recently, Palmer lent her support to the #BreatheWithMe Revolution and appeared in a campaign featuring celebs like Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Khalid and T.I. The project included a video featuring celebs reading the names of Black people who have been killed while in police custody or in other senseless acts of violence.

Peele’s new film will act as a double reunion, first with Palmer and Peele, who previously worked together on the writer and director’s sketch show Key and Peele. Palmer hilariously portrayed Malia Obama’s anger translator in the Obama Shutdown sketch, a recurring segment that included Peele as the former President and co-creator Keegan-Michael Key as his translator. The sketch was so popular that President Obama invited Key to appear in character along with him during the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Peele’s new film may also reunite the director with his Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya. The British Actor is rumored to be in the running to star opposite Palmer in the new film, which would be his latest role in a long line of impressive projects since breaking through in North America in Peele’s 2017 Oscar winning film. Get Out was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Kaluuya, and took home Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first Black writer to ever win.

Since the release of Get Out, Kaluuya has starred in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Steve McQueen’s Widows. Most recently, the 31-year-old actor earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah, where he portrays Fred Hampton, the highly influential Black Panther and Black civil rights leader, ruthlessly surveiled by the FBI and killed by Chicago police while sleeping in bed.

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