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HOLLYWOOD — Comedian and horror auteur Jordan Peele announced his next project will be STICKS , a film where white people beat black people with sticks as a subtle metaphor for racism.

STICKS will be Peele's fourth film distributed by Universal Pictures and also his fourth film about racism.

In an interview with Variety , Peele said he got the idea for STICKS while going on a hike. Along the trail, he saw several sticks, and his imagination ran wild. What if the sticks were used to beat black people in a horrific display of racism? What if they were racism itself?

"I thought long and hard about how my people have been persecuted over the years. Some of us — not me — have even been beaten with sticks," Peele said. "So what if I made a movie whe

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