Knives Out
author - music director Rian Johnson says he would love to do aKnives Outsequel with Daniel Craig . Knives Outis one of this Thanksgiving ’s most prognosticate releases after its covering at this year ’s Toronto Film Festivalearned a stand ovation and super positive review . It currently boasts a 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes , and theKnives Outbox office staff projectionsare looking adept . The principal - constellate film is a classical mystery closed book , as the affluent and nonadaptive Thrombey class gain for their patriarch Harlan ’s ( Christopher Plummer ) natal day . When Harlan twist up drained , Detective Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craig ) is brought in to investigate .
Also include in the stacked dramatis personae is Jamie Lee Curtis , Chris Evans , Michael Shannon , Don Johnson , Katherine Langford , Lakeith Stanfield , Toni Collette , and Ana de Armas . Johnson wrote the playscript in accession to directing ; this is his first film following 2017’sStar warfare : The Last Jedi . At some point in the future , he ’s expected to return to theStar Warsuniverseto create a new trilogy . Knives Outis a comeback to original storytelling for him watch over his filmsBrickandLooper .
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While speaking to Screen Rant at theKnives Outpress junket , Johnson confessed his desire to revisit the character of Benoit Blanc with Craig in a potential sequel . He suppose :
I would love to . We ’ll see how this one does , you jazz . But if this movie does all right , if I can get together with Daniel every few years and do a new Benoit Blanc mystery ? newfangled locating , Modern cast , new mystery . It ’d be so much fun .
Johnson has previously talk about describe his inspiration from Agatha Christie novel , and create a subsequence surrounding the central police detective would certainly abide by in her footstep . Christie created the character Hercule Poirot and write 33 novels about him . Most recently , Poirot was wreak to the magnanimous screen by Kenneth Branagh in 2017’sMurder on the Orient Expressand will appear next year inDeath on the Nile . Detective Blanc could become a advanced - day Poirot for motion-picture fan .
other reviews ofKnives Outhave evoke it is a play mysteryfilled with construction and turns . If audiences respond favourably to it and Johnson does make a sequel , it already has some big shoe to fill . The execution closed book premise , plus the presence of actors like Craig ( just onwards of his last spell as James Bond ) and Evans ( in his biggest post - MCU role yet ) will likely draw fan in . In an era where most event movies are draw from known IP , Knives Outstands out as being an original film that could be a solid fiscal achiever . It could be precisely what the domestic box office needsafter late disappointments . To be fair , it would be fairly disappointing if an original film likeKnives Outbecame a enfranchisement , but if the write up are compelling enough , perhaps it will be deserving it .
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