10 Horror Movie Secrets They'll Never Tell You
3. Where Did Jean Jacket Come From? - Nope
Jordan Peele's Nope offers up a fantastically unique riff on a superficially familiar alien invasion scenario, though provides virtually no exterior context for the presence of its focal UFO, nicknamed Jean Jacket.
First and foremost, we're left with no indication of where Jean Jacket came from. Are they from outer space, or have they always resided in the clouds on Earth?
Though many fans initially believed that the film's title was a sly acronym for "Not of Planet Earth," Peele ultimately confirmed that this wasn't his intent, and despite discussing the movie at length over the last year-plus, has refused to reveal Jean Jacket's origins.
Caltech professor John O. Dabiri, who assisted Peele with Jean Jacket's design, implied in interviews that he felt the creature was otherworldly in origin due to its unconventional biology compared to all known creatures on Earth.
Peele also called Nope an "alien movie" in interviews, though on the other hand, the film's VFX supervisor, Guillaume Rocheron, felt that Peele had conceived Jean Jacket as a terrestrial entity which has resided on Earth since potentially forever.
Neither of these collaborators have the authority to say one way or another where Jean Jacket came from, however, so without Peele being forthcoming on the matter, it's destined to remain a secret for the ages.