Nearly 16 months after Jordan Peele’sGet Outlit the film world on fire, the dust has settled somewhat, allowing the celebrated multi-hyphenate to take a deep breath and decide what comes next.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Peele’s next move is in the direction of Amazon Studios, where the formerKey & Peelestar has signed an exclusive first-look TV deal (not to be confused with the first-look feature deal he haswith Universal Pictures). Technically speaking, he’s moving an existing deal — whichhe signed with Sonar Studiosprior to the release ofGet Out— inked via Monkeypaw Productions, his company which produced bothKey & PeeleandGet Out.
Peele already has a couple of projects lined up for production, including a documentary series based on the Lorena Bobbitt incident (if you don’t remember that, you can just research it on your own time) anda series titledThe Hunt, which centers around a group of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York.
Given Amazon’s massive entertainment budget — see: The billion-dollarLord of the Rings seriesin gestation — in addition to itsrecent internal reorganization, we wouldn’t be surprised to see every one of Peele’s proposals get green-lit, no matter how far off the beaten path. In a statement, he said “I couldn’t be more excited about this new relationship with Amazon. They’ve been a fantastic partner to Monkeypaw over the last year because they’re committed to the same kind of fun and culturally relevant television we are.”
Amazon’s decision to pluck Peele off the market is par for the course at this point, as content creators are in high demand.Grey’s Anatomycreator Shonda Rhimes andAmerican Horror Storycreator Ryan Murphy — also behindGleeandNip/Tuck— both recently signed huge exclusivity agreements with Netflix. Amazon’s stable of makers is equally impressive, currently including Jill Soloway (Transparent) and Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), among others.
Next up for Peele is the release ofBlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s film about a black cop infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, on which Peele served as a producer. Peele also recently teased his next directorial credit,a horror/thriller film titledUs.
