
We’ve got to do this more often. After its commercial and critical success, Knives OutTwo new sequels will be available on Netflix.
The 2019 mystery film that follows Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he tried to figure out who killed a famous crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). Marta (Ana de Armas), the detective had the entire Thrombey family to investigate. Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford Jaeden MartellAll appeared in the film.
Knives OutEventually, he was nominated for three Golden Globes as well as writer Rian JohnsonOscar nomination for best screenplay. Johnson spoke out about his plans to create more stories that stand on their merits even before the murder movie was a success.
“I’ll tell you, the truth is I had such a great time working with Daniel Craig and I had so much fun doing this on every level, from writing it to making it,” Johnson said in an interview for UproxxSeptember 2019. “I’ve never really been interested in doing sequels, but this, the idea of doing more of these with Daniel as his character, is not sequels. It’s just what Agatha Christie did. It’s just coming up with a whole new mystery, a whole new location, all new cast, whole new mechanics of the appeal of a mystery and everything. It’d be a blast.”
Craig, who stood out in the movie with his unique accent, previously discussed how Johnson’s approach to the topics in Knives OutThe storytelling was a success.
“It’s a very funny, entertaining movie. Let’s just get that out right now. But what Rian is so brilliant at doing, he’s just layered in some really nice social commentary. We did this last year; we finished this time last year, and it’s right up to date. Everything’s in there,” he told ScreenrantNovember 2019. “This is a movie which hopefully will entertain, but which will raise up some issues. Hopefully not cause a row, but cause some good discussion.”
Even though viewers loved it, Knives OutThe director and the writer confirmed that the next chapter will not follow the same pattern as the previous one.
“There’s so many different things you can do with it. And that’s what’s fun about it,” Johnson said to SiriusXMIn February 2020. “You look at Agatha Christie’s books and it’s not like every single one is a mansion, a library, and a detective. She also explored many subgenres. She found a different narrative way into each of them.”
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