Earlier this month, we obtained 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 urged he knew precisely what he had in thoughts for his subsequent film, he’s nonetheless at work on the undertaking 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 bought a style of one other secretive horror undertaking on Tuesday with an unlikely collaborator: Hideo Kojima.
Kojima is the creator of the basic “Metallic Gear Strong” franchise, but additionally the “Demise Stranding” video games that IndieWire has been huge followers of for his or her putting cinematic qualities. His new undertaking, during which he collaborated with Peele, is “OD,” and the sport’s first teaser shares only one terrifying scene from the first-person standpoint. 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 reveals a playable sequence during 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 gentle one after the other, with every creating screams and loud knocks at a door as you proceed. We then lower 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 wherever, and Kojima, in a livestream asserting this undertaking, stated that “there’s a unique form of concern Jordan will do; mine is the concern of the knock. I’m actually afraid of the knock sound!” It means that Peele’s contribution is perhaps for a wholly completely different chapter of the sport.
Regardless, the Kojima-Peele collab is an thrilling one. Among the commenters on the trailer alluded to a recreation 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 “Demise 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 recreation Kojima co-produced with legendary horror director Guillermo del Toro. The sport was known 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 spending a dime on PlayStation 4, the transient recreation drew vital acclaim, however when the deliberate franchise was canceled, distributor Konami famously eliminated the sport from the PlayStation Retailer and made it inconceivable to reinstall.
For that purpose, 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.