By 2019, Jordan Peele was an auteur on par with Alfred Hitchcock or The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling. His directorial debut, Get Out, had been declared a new modern horror classic. And his follow-up Us, was one of the most highly anticipated movies of that year, its lead-up positively littered with theories attempting to connect the two films. In our IP-obsessed new era, it was natural to assume that there’d be some overlap, or some semblance of a shared universe.
