Rian Johnson built his early career as a genre-hopping filmmaker with his keen ability to craft memorable, meaningful movies, and after his first visit to a galaxy far, far away with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he’s jumping to yet another genre. While he tackled a murder mystery in his debut feature Brick, his newest film, Knives Out, is an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit with a detective (Daniel Craig) investigating a family-centric murder mystery – and Craig is far from the only mega-star in this spectacular cast. Check out the first trailer below.
- If you’re into superheros and science fiction, Knives Out may not seem like the type of movie you like to see. However, when you consider it is at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes (with 98 reviews thus far), it is worth watching the original Knives Out Trailer as well as the new Knives Out Final Trailer that you can watch below.
- Check out the Knives Out Official Trailer for a preview of the new comedic whodunnit that's written and directed by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, The Brothers Bloom.) Featuring a star-studded cast including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson.
- New Trailer Knives Out—In theaters November 27, 2019. Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Noah Segan, Edi Patterson, Riki Lindhome, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer.
- Apr 01, 2021 The Knives Out 2 Release Date. Naturally, news of a Knives Out sequel comes with questions about when people can actually watch it. Right now, the answer to that is patience — Johnson is surely.
Knives Out Trailer
Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc is clearly inspired by Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, the best-selling author’s famous literary Belgian detective whose eccentric crime-solving tactics rival that of Sherlock Holmes. In the Christie novels, Poirot spoke with a slight accent, and Craig seems like he’s having a blast here adopting a Southern accent for the first time since his turn as a southern-fried safe cracker Joe Bang in Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky.
Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is.
Trailer Knives Out Imdb
But as you can see, this isn’t just a Daniel Craig vehicle – this is a good old-fashioned ensemble piece gathering several of the best actors working today, including Chris Evans, Lakeith Stanfield, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, and Christopher Plummer. (Although it seems Plummer doesn’t stick around for too long, since the family patriarch is murdered at what’s supposed to be his birthday celebration.) I love what Jamie Lee Curtis is doing here; she has an air of almost slinking menace that’s aided by that striking display of knives in a circle on the wall. I don’t recall having seen Michael Shannon play a character who’s quite this indignant recently, and it’s always interesting to see Chris Evans take a step away from his Captain America persona, in this case by telling his family members to eat shit.
Johnson again reunites with cinematographer Steve Yedlin, who has shot every one of his films since 2005’s high school neo-noir Brick, and I love the look they’ve created here. It certainly looks like this movie deserves its position in our most anticipated films of 2019 list – a list that’s looking sadder with each passing day. Here’s hoping this one doesn’t let us down.
Knives Out hits theaters on November 27, 2019.
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When it first premiered in 2019, the comedic mystery movie Knives Outwon our hearts with its twisty storyline, star-studded ensemble, and endless supply of quotable moments (“I read a tweet about a New Yorker article about you”). Chris Evans in that now-iconic sweater helped, too. Good news for fans of the hilarious movie, helmed by Daniel Craig’s Southern-accented sleuth, Benoit Blanc: Two new Knives Out filmsare on the way. As first reported by Deadline, Netflix is close to acquiring the next two Knives Out installments for more than $400 million, “one of the biggest streamer movie deals in history.” Here’s everything you need to know before writer and director Rian Johnson takes audiences on another clue-filled journey.
The Knives Out 2 Plot & Cast
As if news of two more movies wasn’t exciting enough, filming for the first sequel is already underway and set to start on June 28. But don’t expect a return to the Thrombeys’ New England “ancestral family home.” This time, Blanc is going to Greece (cue the Mamma Mia memes because he’d make an amazing fourth dad for Sophie). Deadline also reported that casting would begin right away, so it won’t be long before we see who will be accompanying Blanc in the surely twisted web.
Ideally, the sequel would be set on some kind of Thrombey family vacation to the Mediterranean. However, this likely won’t happen. Though talk about the Knives Out sequels started pretty much as soon as the first film premiered, Johnson has been clear that he is envisioning more of an anthology of standalone stories rather than a continuation of the dysfunctional family fans met in 2019. As he told The Hollywood Reporter in February 2020, “Think of it just like another Hercule Poirot novel from Agatha Christie, so a whole new location, whole new cast.” On April 1, Jamie Lee Curtis, who starred as Linda in the first film, took to Instagram to address the casting situation in a playful way, saying that the family was in counseling and that their “therapist suggested they stay away from Benoit Blanc in the future.”
“Linda was fine as she kicked her loafer wearing prick of a husband, sorry @donjohnson to the curb,” she continued. “The rest of them are hustling. Joni has some vaginal scented bath bomb, Walt is self publishing his memoir. NONE of us will be joining Mr. Blanc in Greece.” OK, so we may not get the Thrombeys back — but the improvised fan-fiction Curtis just provided almost makes up for it. (Given the timing, this could be some kind of April Fool’s joke, and the entire unhappy family really will return! Wishful thinking, maybe.)
However, we might not want to rule out allfamiliar faces just yet. Ana de Armas, who received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Marta in the first Knives Out film, told Flaunt in October, “I hope this is one of those surprises that 2021 will bring for me, a phone call from Rian!” We hope so, too. Marta’s involvement could make sense since she wasn’t part of the Thrombey family and got on especially well with Blanc in the original movie.
Maybe Marta joins Blanc in his sleuthing or bankrolls his trip to Europe with her newly inherited fortune. Either way, if the original Knives Out ensemble is any indication, more big stars could be cast in the weeks and months ahead.
The Knives Out 2 Release Date
Beyond The Trailer Knives Out
Naturally, news of a Knives Out sequel comes with questions about when people can actually watch it. Right now, the answer to that is patience — Johnson is surely crafting some script magic before filming begins in June. The first Knives Out movie started filming in October 2018, wrapped in December 2018, and premiered in September 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival, so the timeline for the second installation could be similar. Let’s just hope COVID doesn’t create any production or release date delays.
Trailer Movie Knives Out
This post will be updated with the trailer, release date, and additional plot and cast details as more information on the Knives Outsequel becomes available.