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Key and peele keanu full movie6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Keanu isn’t really an adaptation of a specific sketch but more like an expanded idea for a sketch. the already-cinematic eye of director Peter Atencio during the series showed that the move would require minimal upscaling and their love of cinema was made apparent throughout the series. It seemed inevitable that Comedy Central’s Key & Peele would eventually move to the big screen. The downside is that this often ends up spreading things too thin as evidenced by the great majority of films born from Saturday Night Live sketches. ![]() The instinct is always go bigger, gather more resources to play with and flesh out the backstories of characters that often do little more than one or two things per sketch. Even the cases that did work ( Wayne’s World… others, I’m sure) had to make a significant move away from the core concept. Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key in KeanuĮxpanding a sketch premise to a full movie has rarely, if ever, been beneficial to the material.
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