Jordan Peele's
Us doesn't open until March 22, but those in attendance of this year's South by Southwest Film Festival will get a first look at the highly anticipated horror-thriller on March 8. The follow-up to Peele's 2017 box office hit
Get Out will open the 26th edition of the festival which is held in Austin, Texas.
“We are crazy excited to world premiere the most anticipated film of 2019 from the creative powerhouse that brought us Get Out,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “We honestly couldn’t imagine a more perfect film to kick off the 2019 SXSW Film Festival.”
The trailer for
Us debuted last month, offering our first look at Peele's next original nightmare. The film stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Winston Duke) and their two children. But what should be a relaxing getaway soon turns into a nightmare as the family is confronted by their evil doppelgangers. The trailer didn't spoil much, but you can expect writer and director Jordan Peele to have a few clever tricks and twists up his sleeve.
Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us, from Monkeypaw Productions, stars Oscar® winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
Us formally releases on March 22, 2019, unless you catch its premiere at SXSW Film Festival on March 8, 2019. It marks the second year in a row that a horror movie has opened the festival, following John Krasinski's
A Quiet Place from last year.