“Knives Out” is officially getting a sequel.
Daniel Craig steals the show as Detective Benoit Blanc. Unless you've been living.
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- Although she's starring alongside Daniel Craig in 2020's new Bond film, No Time to Die, the gorgeous Cuban starlet first shared the screen with him in Knives Out. As Marta Cabrera, the recently.
- It’s been confirmed that a sequel to the Oscar-nominated Knives Out is. Lionsgate CEO Jon. After reading the script she realised that Cabrera was a central character in the film, de Armas.
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer and Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake confirmed the news on Thursday during a conference call with Wall Street analysts, per Variety.
#KnivesOut writer-director @rianjohnson says he's already writing the next case for Daniel Craig's detective character. pic.twitter.com/TmddIwhCf8
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 10, 2020
Appearing on the red carpet at the Oscars, where the film is nominated for Best Original Screenplay, writer-director Rian Johnson revealed that he is already hard at work on the script for the sequel starring Daniel Craig’s detective character Benoit Blanc: “I’m writing what hopefully will be the next one right now. The idea is it will be Daniel Craig as the detective. Whole new cast, whole new case, whole new location. It’s just like doing another Hercule Poirot mystery like Agatha Christie did.”
“Knives Out” is soon expected to break $300 million at the worldwide box office, and along with Craig also starred Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon and more.
On Thursday, Johnson spoke with SiriusXM Hollywood Studios about the sequel.
“I have to write it! Do you have any ideas?” he joked. “In my mind, I don’t even think of it in terms of a sequel… ever since we started working on this, I was like, look, if we can keep this going the same way Agatha Christie wrote a bunch of Poirot novels.”
“Do that with Blanc and keep making mysteries,” Johnson elaborated. “Whole new cast, Whole new location, whole new mystery… there’s so many different things you can do with it.”
The studio is currently planning production for a “Knives Out” sequel and “John Wick 4”. There is no release date for “Knives Out 2” but “John Wick 4” will premiere May 21, 2021.
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Update: Deadline reports that today, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed that a Knives Out sequel is officially moving forward, and he hinted that, according to the outlet, “a production start for a follow-up…is imminent.” That aligns with Johnson’s previously-stated desire to get rolling on a sequel quickly. Our original report from January 6 continues.
Daniel Craig will be back on the case, and this time his knives are out. The actor is set to reprise his role as the Southern detective Benoit Blanc in a Knives Out sequel, which director Rian Johnson is currently developing under Lionsgate. The studio is reportedly seeing franchise opportunities after the Rian Johnson whodunit’s immense holiday box office success.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Johnson is developing a Knives Out sequel, with Craig on board to reprise his role as the intrepid detective Benoit Blanc. Per THR:
“Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter at Lionsgate’s pre-Golden Globes party on Saturday night that he was already developing a sequel centered on Daniel Craig’s Southern detective Benoit Blanc investigating a new case. The filmmaker added that he was eager to make the pic quickly, ideally in the next year.”
“Daniel [Craig] had so much fun doing it, and he wants to do more,” Johnson’s producing partner Ram Bergman added.
While Lionsgate has not officially greenlit a Knives Out sequel, the news would be unsurprising given the film’s $246 million worldwide box office haul — a rare triumph for original movies in a theater landscape dominated by sequels and remakes. Of course, there is an air of irony in turning one of the few successful original films of the year into a franchise, but Knives Out is uniquely suited to creating a series of mostly-unrelated stories.
Inspired by the Agatha Christie murder mysteries (with Craig’s Benoit Blanc a clear homage to the writer’s Hercule Poirot), succeeding Knives Out sequels only need to bring back Craig’s Benoit Blanc, and perhaps LaKeith Stanfield’s police detective, to solve new, baffling cases involving more star-studded casts. The beauty of Knives Out was that it took a familiar structure and familiar stars, and upended our expectations while telling a painfully timely story. I don’t doubt that Johnson can do it again, and the possibilities of new stars that he could bring on board (cast Kelly Marie Tran!) is endlessly exciting. And Craig will soon have his schedule wide open with his upcoming swan song as James Bond in No Time to Die. And we all know how much he loves doing that deep fried Southern accent. But maybe in the sequels, we could see him putting on totally different, increasingly ridiculous accents with no explanation? It’s your move, Rian.
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