This article has spoilers for Nope, the latest horror thriller from Jordan Peele.
On the surface, Nope is about a brother and sister who are willing to do anything to save the family business. Otis Haywood Sr. (Keith David), OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), and Emerald (Keke Palmer), who just lost their father, are ready to do whatever it takes to promote the historic horse ranch. How do you get to Haywood Ranch? Where did they film Nope?
In “Nope,” the fight to save the Haywood Ranch is shown in a very interesting way. Where did they film it?
Nope pays homage to classic movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by Steven Spielberg and The Horse in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge. It tells the scary story of a horse ranch that becomes a UFO-like creature’s favorite place to hunt. The UFO is picky about what it eats.
Even though it sometimes spits out blood, it doesn’t like to eat horse statues. Is it possible to visit a place that is like the Haywood Ranch in real life? Where did they film Nope?
PHASR MEDIA says that most of the filming took place between June 2021 and November 2021. Most of the shooting probably happened at the Firestone Ranch, also known as the Haywood Ranch, in Agua Dulce, Santa Clarita, California. In order to make Nope, the crew didn’t have to cross the U.S. border, which isn’t the case for action movies that take place all over the world. The Cinemaholic says that the whole movie was shot in California.
What about the claim of Jupiter? Does a real-life theme park look like the one in “Nope”?
In Nope, the theme park called Jupiter’s Claim was also used as a filming location. Production designer Ruth DeJong came up with the idea for Jupiter’s Claim. After the crew finished its tasks, Jupiter’s Claim was carefully taken apart. It was built just for the movie. It can, however, be seen on a computer screen.
After the filming was done, Jupiter’s Claim was moved to the Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California. On July 22, 2022, the day Nope came out, Universal Studios Hollywood opened the show to the public. This was a first for the famous studio complex. In other words, fans of the show Nope can now look for clues in the Gold Rush-themed park.
In “Nope,” the role of the spectacle in modern society is looked at.
Nope is a mix of a horror-thriller and a love letter to movies. It’s about how the siblings who own a ranch try to beat the supernatural thing that killed their father. Instead of a slightly more predictable bad guy, OJ and Emerald have to deal with a UFO that threatens their way of life and promises to bring attention to the ranch.
“I think people might be looking for a clearer villain in this movie, but it doesn’t quite work out that way,” Jordan told GQ. “The bad guy is this threat from another world. And it’s something that everyone has in common: how they feel about the show.”
“I wrote the script while I was stuck inside, so I knew I wanted to make a movie about the sky. I knew everyone would want to be outside, but I also knew that this trauma and this time had given us a new fear of what it meant to go outside “he added. “We’d like to go outside. So I put some of that in there.”
The movie Nope is now in theatres.
