Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ Scares Way to No. 1 at Box Office
During his Sundance post-screening Q&A, Peele added that Get Out “was a missing piece in the genre. One of my favorite movies is the Stepford Wives and the way it dealt with social issues in regards to gender. I just thought, that’s proof that you can pull off a movie about race, that’s a thriller and entertaining and fun.”
Peele hatched the story idea eight years ago “when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were up against each other for the Democratic (presidential) nomination. All of a sudden, the country was focused for a second on Black civil rights and the women’s civil rights movement and where they intersect and who deserves to be president more, and who has waited long enough. It’s an absurd thing that civil rights were divided. That was when the germ of the idea hit me. It marinated for a long time and I wrote the script three years ago.”
He pitched the idea to QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick who said “I’ve definitely never seen this movie before.”
Added Peele, “Here’s a movie that’s never gonna get made, and by the end (of our coffee), Sean was like, ‘Let’s make it.’”
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