8 Movie Fan Theories That Were Confirmed By The Creators

One of the most oddball fan theories you'll ever hear, the notion of Get Out and Being John Malkovich existing in the same universe might seem ludicrous at first, but there's actually a lot of evidence to support the claim.

For starters, the two films share similar plot points. In Being John Malkovich, Craig (John Cusack) finds a passageway into the mind of actor John Malkovich. Eventually, he discovers he can override Malkovich's brain and fully control him. And in Get Out, Dean (Bradley Whitford) performs a procedure where he implants white minds into black bodies, allowing the white people to control their black hosts.

The theory also posits that Catherine Keener's Get Out character (Missy) and her Being John Malkovich character (Maxine) help "bridge" the two films.

Being John Malkovich ends with the doorway into Malkovich's mind being closed. If Maxine still wanted to use this mind-controlling ability, she would need to explore other options. So, after the film ends, she seduces and marries a neurosurgeon (Dean), plots out the whole white minds/black bodies plan, changes her identity and moves out into the woods to live in privacy.

This isn't something Jordan Peele had fully mapped out while shooting Get Out, but the notion that both movies exist in the same universe is something he wholeheartedly approved in a Vanity Fair video.

"So, as far as I'm concerned, it's true."

Obviously, there's an element of jokiness to this whole thing and Peele isn't being one hundred percent serious, but for him to give this theory the stamp of approval is still really cool.