Issa Rae, Jordan Peele Teaming With Universal On Thought-Provoking Genre Film ‘Sinkhole’

Deadline is reporting that Insecure star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Get Out) are teaming with Universal Pictures on Sinkhole, a thought-provoking genre movie that engages with questions of female perfection and identity.

Based on Leyna Krow’s short story, the film will be about a young family that moves into its dream home despite the gaping sinkhole in the backyard. The mysterious sinkhole manages to fix broken and destroyed things. However, the story asks, what if that thing is a person?

The site states that the project is being developed as a potential star vehicle for the in-demand Rae, who will produce with Universal and Peele’s Monkeypaw. Producers are Peele and Win Rosenfeld for the latter and Rae, Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi for Issa Rae Productions.

Krow is executive producing alongside Alex Davis-Lawrence from literary journal Moss, in which the story was originally published. As a development project, there’s no shoot date yet.