Knives Out 3 has a title: Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller.
“The following Benoit Blanc thriller, the follow-up to Knives Out and Glass Onion, is named Wake Up Useless Man,” author/director Rian Johnson revealed on X, previously Twitter, on Friday.
A forty five-second video on Johnson’s X web page additionally formally confirmed Daniel Craig will reprise his position as Benoit Blanc within the film that’s set to debut on Netflix subsequent yr. The streaming big on its Tudum web site additionally mentioned Craig will return as Blanc to resolve a brand new homicide thriller.
“That’s proper, Daniel Craig is again because the suave Southern investigator in Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, a brand new installment of the whodunnit franchise written and directed by Rian Johnson. Blanc might be unraveling a model new homicide thriller in an as-yet-undisclosed setting, surrounded by a brand new colourful solid of suspects,” Netflix mentioned.
The Hollywood Reporter had beforehand reported on the Netflix pact for the 2 Knives Out sequels, which included that Johnson doesn’t need to take notes from the streamer, that Craig should star within the sequels and that every will need to have at the least the finances of the 2019 film, which was within the $40 million vary.
Johnson will write and direct the second sequel to his 2019 movie, which earned him an Oscar nomination for greatest authentic screenplay. “I like all the pieces about whodunnits, however one of many issues I like most is how malleable the style is. There’s an entire tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and attending to discover that vary is likely one of the most fun issues about making Benoit Blanc films,” the director posted on his X thread.
There’s no phrase on whether or not Netflix will give Wake Up Useless Man a theatrical launch, because it did with Glass Onion, which premiered on the Toronto Movie Pageant.