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Knives Out 3 is underway, and actor Andrew Scott from Ripley recently joined the cast.
Variety reports that the star in the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will work with actors Josh O'Connor (Challengers) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla). Additionally, Daniel Craig is returning as Benoit Blanc.
Andrew Scott Joins 'Knives Out 3' Cast (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/2oIxDlWHND
— Variety (@Variety) May 28, 2024
“I love everything about whodunit, but one of the things I love most is how malleable the genre is,” the writer and director Rian Johnson said on social media. “There's a whole tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and getting to explore that range is one of the most exciting things about making Benoit Blanc movies. We're about to go into production on the 3rd one, and I'm very, very excited to share the title, which gives a little hint of where it's going.”
I love everything about whodunnits, but one of the things I love most is how malleable the genre is. There’s a whole tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and getting to explore that range is one of the most exciting things about making Benoit Blanc movies.
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) May 24, 2024
He also posted a teaser that “more to come very soon” regarding details in a recent X thread where the 3rd film is being hailed as Blanc's “most dangerous case yet.”
Craig narrates, saying, “In the beginning, the knives came out. Then, behold, the glass was shattered. But my most dangerous case yet is about to be revealed.”
The next Benoit Blanc mystery, the follow-up to Knives Out and Glass Onion, is called Wake Up Dead Man. pic.twitter.com/pdDXRDmwcI
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) May 24, 2024
Johnson was ready for this 3rd film immediately after the 2nd one was premiered.
“It's interesting,” the director shared with Deadline. “We structured the [Netflix deal] so that if I wanted to do something else next, I could. And I think everybody assumed I'd have a couple other random ideas — unrelated projects — that I've been kicking around. But, honestly, over the past couple of months, the most exciting creative thing to me right now is that third movie. And so, I think I'm going to hop right into it. Not because of a contractual obligation, but, genuinely, that's the shiny object I find my nose pointed toward right now. [It's] the idea of figuring out how it can be completely different from this one as well as the first one.”
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Agatha Christie heavily influences Knives Out
According to Town and Country, Rian Johnson wants to emulate Agatha Christie.
“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,” he explained to Uproxx. “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.”
He also stated, “I mean, all of the casting is being influenced by Agatha Christie novels. So, the casting was, to a certain extent, trying to capture that. It's just kind of the fun test of, first and foremost, who do I think would be really great in the part? Also, who would I just kind of squeal with delight when I see them show up on screen.”
The director and writer also had Hitchcock in mind when creating the film series.
Johnson added, “So, I love whodunits. But I also do kind of fundamentally agree with Hitchcock that with whodunits, it's just one big buildup to a surprise. That's the anti-Hitchcock movie. And he always thought that just doesn't work great for a film. So, for me, you take kind of a Hitchcock approach to the meat of the movie and still have all the pleasures there of a traditional whodunit. And so the various machinations in the movie were all attempts to kind of do that.”
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will be released sometime in 2025.
