NOPE is the story of a group of residents in a remote part of the USA experiencing a sinister development. Otis Haywood Sr (Keith David) owns a horse ranch in Agua Dulce, California. He rents out the animals for film and television shoots. One day, while he is at his... ranch, he is suddenly killed after he’s hit by a nickel that falls from the sky. Though his son, OJ aka Otis Jr (Daniel Kaluuya) takes him immediately to the hospital, he is not able to save him. The authorities inform him that the nickel must have fallen through an aeroplane in the sky. OJ never buys the theory. Six months later, OJ and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) are continuing to rent the horses for film shoots. OJ is in a financial crisis and he starts selling horses to Ricky "Jupe" Park (Steven Yeun), who owns Jupiter's Claim, a small Western theme park, near their ranch. While discussing their agreement, Emerald happens to see a picture of a chimpanzee in his cabin. This is when Jupe tells them that he was a famous child actor and was a part of a sitcom called ‘Gordy’s Home’. The show was pulled off abruptly after the chimp, who played the role of Gordy, went violent and killed the actors on the show but somehow spared him. The same night, OJ and Emerald notice that the electricity in their house starts to fluctuate. Sometime later, one of their horses disappears. OJ sees a UFO, shaped like a flying saucer, and realizes that it is the one who took up his horse and is also spitting inorganic or inedible debris, which caused his father’s death. When Emerald learns of the UFO’s presence, she tells OJ to capture it on a video camera and then sell the footage for millions. OJ realizes that doing so will solve his financial crisis. He buys surveillance cameras from a store of Fry’s Electronics. Its employee Angel (Brandon Perea), who comes to set up the cameras, realizes that the siblings are probably trying to spot aliens. That night, OJ and Emerald try capturing the UFO. Angel, curious as to what the Haywoods are up to, starts checking their footage remotely. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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