A little over a year since Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery premiered on Netflix, weโve now received a key update on Knives Out 3 from director Rian Johnson.
โItโs coming along,โ he recently told The Wrap.
โI obviously couldnโt work during the [Writerโs Guild of America] strike, and now that itโs over, Iโm diving in full force, and so itโs coming along.โ
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Johnson added: โIโve got the premise, Iโve got the setting, Iโve got what the movie is in my head. Itโs just a matter of writing the damn thing.โ
The previous instalment saw private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) unravelling a sinister conspiracy behind a murder mystery game hosted by tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) at the titular Glass Onion โ Bronโs high-concept mansion on a private island in Greece.
Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline also starred in the sequel.
One can only imagine where Craigโs delightfully-camp detective is going to be dropped next. As Rian Johnson has previously noted, every subsequent film post-Knives Out will be a standalone film/case with Benoit Blanc a la Hercule Poirot.
โThereโs so many different things you can do with it. And thatโs whatโs fun about it,โ Rian Johnson explained during an appearance on SiriusXM.
โYou look at Agatha Christieโs books and itโs not like every single one is a mansion, a library, and a detective.โ
โBesides setting, she also explored a bunch of different subgenres. She found a different narrative way into each of them.โ
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In 2021, Netflix acquired the rights to Knives Out as well as the two subsequent sequels, Knives Out 2 (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) and the forthcoming Knives Out 3, for a staggering sum of US$450 million.
The deal effectively ensured the return of both Rian Johnson as director and Daniel Craigโs reprisal as Benoit Blanc. Although itโs unclear what will become of the franchise once the trilogy-completer hits streaming queues.
Keep an eye out here for all relevant Knives Out 3 updates (release date, cast, trailer, news, etc.).
