Monkeypaw Productions


Monkeypaw Productions is an American production company founded by director and producer Jordan Peele in 2012. The company is known for producing the horror films Get Out and Us. The company is named after the 1902 horror short story "The Monkey's Paw".
The logo itself is rendered entirely in stop motion animation and starts with a camera pan through a train car that is full of various artifacts and props. After a close up of the car doors, the camera pans over to show the enigmatic monkey paw stirring a cup of tea with a spoon as the production company's name displays. All of this is set to the ominous sound of the train passing through rainy weather.

Overview

In 2012, Monkeypaw Productions released the comedy series Key & Peele on January 31, 2012 on Comedy Central. When the series ended in 2015, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key wrote the script for the comedy film Keanu which was released on April 29, 2016 by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures. In 2017, Jordan Peele's directorial debut horror film Get Out was released on February 24, 2017 by Universal Pictures.
On May 3, 2017, Peele signed a two year, first-look deal with Universal Pictures. The deal involves Peele and his Monkeypaw production company to invest, produce and distribute genre films for Universal. The deal also includes Peele producing micro-budget films with Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions banner after their collaboration with Get Out.
On May 16, 2017, it was announced that Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and J. J. Abrams's Bad Robot Productions are producing a horror drama anthology series titled Lovecraft Country for HBO and Warner Bros. Television. The television series is an adaptation of the 2016 horror novel by Matt Ruff. The pilot will be written by Misha Green, who will serve as the showrunner for the series. Peele, Abrams and Ben Stephenson will serve as executive producers.
On May 8, 2018, it was announced that Peele would write and direct Us, a social horror film starring Lupita Nyong'o, Elisabeth Moss and Winston Duke. The film was released on March 22, 2019 by Universal Pictures. Rachel Foullon is the company's Director of Operations.

Feature films

Television series