Jordan Peele Is Currently Filming Stephen King’s 'Children of the Ghetto'
Jordan Peele, the actor, director, and writer known best for ‘Black Ghoulies’, and the visionary creative force behind such blockbuster horror films as 'Get Out', 'US’ and ‘It’s Inside Me’, has announced that he’s currently adapting Stephen King’s ‘Children of the Corn’, which he’ll call ‘Children of the Ghetto’. As expected, Jordan Peele is putting his trademark black spin on the material. ‘Children of the Ghetto’ will be about a white family from the Midwest moving to New York and their misunderstanding of the black community.
Casting for the film is already underway. Jesse Plemons, the son of ‘Capote’ actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, is set to play the role of Ken. Melissa McCarthy (Ghostbusters) is rumored to play his wife Karen. As for the rest of the cast, ‘Children of the Ghetto’ is now casting people of color for various roles in the ghetto. The casting call puts emphasis on African-American talent with prison tattoos, dreadlocks, weaves, and afros, plus it welcomes subway muggers, dealers, users, homeless, or anyone who has ever had an overweight white girlfriend or has ever worn their pants below their ass. If you’re interested in being in Jordan Peele’s new horror movie, you can visit DontTrustWhitey.com for more details.
Peele reports to BloJo Movie Network that he was "moved to tears by the script" (which was originally pitched as ‘Children of the Cornrows') because he felt the subject matter of racial anxiety is more relevant now than ever.
“Why do white Americans fear black Americans in 21st-century America? I think my new horror movie ‘Children of the Ghetto’ will give a deeper understanding to how racial anxiety can shape our communities,” the filmmaker recently told BloJo. “I want to force white viewers to reckon with their racist bullshit. Also, mixing horror with social commentary hasn’t failed me yet.
In other news, Jordan Peele is already lining up his future projects. He’s currently working on a spin-off to ‘Candyman’ called ‘Black Licorice’ and a remake of ‘Leprechaun in the Hood.’
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