Jordan Peele is considering making a sequel to his smash hit Get Out, but if he does, what will it be about? Although the original ends with Chris Washington exacting his revenge and escaping the Armitages’ house, there are still many loose ends and different possibilities Peele could explore in the next film.
Get Out exploded on the scene in 2017 and soon became a hot topic for conversation in the mainstream. It struck a cultural nerve with the American public, and went on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2018. Get Out grossed over $250 million worldwide, which is rare for a first-time screenwriter, let alone a horror movie. In Get Out, the film’s African American protagonist, Chris Washington, discovers that his white girlfriend’s family is trapping people in a hypnotic state called the “Sunken Place” so they can put a white person’s brain into their bodies and take over their physical forms. By the end of the movie, Chris escapes, kills most of the Armitage family, and is rescued.
Where does this leave Get Out 2? It sounds like Peele has some ideas brewing, but he’s not likely to take the obvious route.
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In the ending, Chris leaves his devious girlfriend alive, but Peele had an alternate ending that gave him a different fate. As this didn’t happen, perhaps Rose could return, using her white privilege and wealthy connections to come after Chris. Nevertheless, for a filmmaker like Peele, who seems to like to play with deeper symbolic elements, as he’s proven with Get Out and 2019’s Us, this approach might be a little heavy-handed. Ultimately, one of the reasons Get Out is loved by so many is because of its layers of metaphor and thematic depth, such as the deer Rose and Chris hit with their car on the way to the Armitages. For Chris, this brings to mind how his mother was killed in a hit-and-run accident, and the deer symbolizes loss and his mother. Later, when Dean Armitage expresses his desire to get rid of the deer in the area, it takes on a new meaning: unwanted visitors are to be hunted.
With elements such as these being present in the first film, Peele has set a high bar for himself for the sequel. Audiences know from the get-together the Armitages have at their house that they’re not the only ones engaging in the terrifying practice of stealing people’s bodies. Perhaps there are other families doing the same thing, which could open further possibilities for a sequel. Peele could go the prequel route by focusing on how the Armitages discovered how to banish someone’s consciousness to the Sunken Place. From there, they could further explore what led the family to start using this technique on black people, specifically. Whatever Jordan Peele has in mind for a sequel to Get Out, the director has more than proven himself as a profound storyteller.
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