How Long Is Knives Out

We've got to do this more often. Following its commercial and critical success, Knives Out will return with two new sequels on Netflix.

The 2019 mystery film post-obit Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he tried to figure out who killed a famous crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). With the help of 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 and Jaeden Martell all appeared in the movie.

Knives Out went on to be nominated for three Gilded Globes and writer Rian Johnson received an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay. Even before the murder feature found success, Johnson shared his plans for creating more than stories that could stand up on their own.

"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 information technology," Johnson said in an interview for Uproxx in September 2019. "I've never actually been interested in doing sequels, only this, the idea of doing more of these with Daniel as his character, is not sequels. It's just what Agatha Christie did. It'due south but coming up with a whole new mystery, a whole new location, all new cast, whole new mechanics of the entreatment of a mystery and everything. Information technology'd be a blast."

Craig, who stood out in the movie with his unique accent, previously discussed how Johnson'due south approach to the topics in Knives Out benefited the storytelling.

"It'south a very funny, entertaining movie. Let'due south simply get that out right now. Simply what Rian is so brilliant at doing, he's just layered in some really overnice social commentary. We did this last yr; nosotros finished this fourth dimension last yr, and information technology's right upward to appointment. Everything's in at that place," he told Screenrant in November 2019. "This is a film which hopefully will entertain, but which will enhance upwardly some issues. Hopefully not cause a row, but cause some good discussion."

Even though viewers loved the prepare for Knives Out, the author and director confirmed that the side by side affiliate is not going to follow the same circumstance equally before.

"At that place'south so many different things you can do with it. And that's what's fun almost information technology," Johnson said to SiriusXM in February 2020. "Y'all look at Agatha Christie's books and it'south non like every unmarried ane is a mansion, a library, and a detective. Besides setting, she also explored a bunch of dissimilar subgenres. She found a different narrative way into each of them."

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