Knives Out 2: Leslie Odom Jr. joins Daniel Craig in Netflix sequel

With an ensemble solid that included Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Ana de Armas, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, and extra, Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT was a humiliation of riches and can possible show onerous to high, however the upcoming Knives Out sequel is actually sport to strive.

Daniel Craig will in fact be reprising his function of Detective Benoit Blanc for Netflix’s Knives Out sequel, and THR has reported that Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) is the newest member to signal on, becoming a member of the already solid Kathryn Hahn, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, and Edward Norton. As anticipated, the character of Odom Jr.’s function, in addition to the small print of the plot itself, are being saved tightly underneath wraps. Manufacturing on the sequel is slated to kick off this summer season in Greece.

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Though the Knives Out sequel will clearly discover Detective Benoit Blanc tackling one other thriller, Rian Johnson has beforehand teased that we should not anticipate extra of the identical for the sequel. “The identical manner Agatha Christie wrote a bunch of Poirot novels,” Rian Johnson stated, “we will do this with Blanc and preserve making new mysteries, you already know, entire new solid, entire new location, entire new thriller, it is simply one other Beniot Blanc thriller. There’s so many various issues you can do with it.” Johnson continued: “You have a look at Agatha Christie’s books for instance, it is not like each single one is a mansion, and a household, and a library, and a detective. In addition to settings, she additionally explored a bunch of various sub-genres, And Then They Had been None is actually a slasher movie, it is principally a horror film; The ABC Murders is form of like a proto-serial killer film in a manner. She discovered a really totally different narrative manner into every of them.” Leslie Odom Jr. will subsequent be seen in The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which is able to hit theaters and HBO Max on September 24, 2021.