Earlier this week, it was revealed that there are more Knives Out films coming!
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Linda Drysdale, eldest daughter of the Thrombey family and real estate mogul.(Supplied: Lionsgate/Claire Folger). Knives Out is in cinemas from November 28. Jamie Lee Curtis won't return for Knives Out sequel Pandemic reduces number of high school students taking dual enrollment courses UK's elite schools face a reckoning on rape culture The Thrombey.
Netflix is in the process of closing on a deal to bring a second and third movie in the franchise to life on the streaming service.
Director Rian Johnson will be back behind the camera for them both, as will star Daniel Craig.
However, not everyone from the first film is coming back.
Click inside to find out which original stars will be back for the 'Knives Out' sequels...
Jamie Lee Curtis, who played Lynda Drysdale, revealed that the Thromby family won't be in them at all.
'To clear up any rumors, the Thromby family is in family counseling and the therapist suggested they stay away from Benoit Blanc in the future,' Jamie announced, and added that Linda 'was fine as she kicked her loafer wearing prick of a husband, sorry @donjohnson to the curb.'
The rest, she says, are 'hustling. Ransom is apparently in the knitting sweater business, a new skill he picked up in the slammer. Joni has some vaginal scented bath bomb, Walt is self publishing his memoir.'
Jamie continued, 'NONE of us will be joining Mr. Blanc in Greece. As the family spokesperson we wish the filmmakers all our best in their new venture.'
Knives Out is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
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
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.
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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.