Janelle Monáe and Jordan Peele Have 'Spoken About' Making a Movie Together: 'It Will Happen' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Janelle Monáe in Beverly Hills, California, on April 9, 2024; Jordan Peele in London on March 25, 2024.Photo:Stefanie Keenan/Getty, Mike Marsland/WireImage

Stefanie Keenan/Getty, Mike Marsland/WireImage

Janelle MonáeandJordan Peelehave something special cooking.

Speaking with PEOPLE about her partnership with AMC asthe network’s FearFesthost for 2024, the actor-singer, 38, reveals she and Peele, 45, “have definitely spoken about making [a] film” together, as recently as this year.

“We texted a few months ago, and he and I both said we’re going to make our movie. So I think it will happen. It’s just timing,” Monáe says.

It wouldn’t be the first time they have been creatively linked. Monáe’s song"I Like That,“from her 2018 albumDirty Computer, is on the soundtrack to Peele’sLupita Nyong’o-led 2019 horror filmUs.

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Janelle Monáe at a screening of Jordan Peele’sUsin West Hollywood, California, on March 8, 2019.Robin L Marshall/Getty

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Peele also directed Monáe on aphoto shoot forWmagazinein 2018, in which theHidden Figuresstar stunningly channeled Hitchcockian style in a variety of menswear designs.

“Every time I see the photos and when people bring it to me, it just screams so many different movie ideas,” Monáe tells PEOPLE of that shoot. “So I’m excited about when that time finally happens.”

While she can’t tease anything specific about their in-the-works film (“I’ve learned to make sure that it’s done before you mention it,” she says), the"Lipstick Lover"singer raves that she and Oscar-winner Peele “love each other as creatives.”

“We love the horror genre, we love the psychological-thriller genre, and we can’t wait to work with one another,” Monáe adds.

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Janelle Monáe hosts and stars in the trailer for AMC’s FearFest.AMC Networks

AMC Networks

Monáe also praised theOsgood Perkins-directed film’s “pacing,” as well as the “unnerving” performance fromNicolas Cage, who played the titular villain.

“He transformed in a way that I just had never seen him,” she says, adding of the movie in general, “It was very disturbing. In the best possible way.”

Thefull schedulefor AMC’s FearFest, running all the way through Oct. 31, is available atamc.com.

source: people.com