Rian Johnson has supplied an sincere and considerably disappointing replace on the potential of Knives Out 4, forward of the discharge of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Since debuting in 2019, Knives Out has change into one in all trendy cinema’s most profitable unique franchises. Daniel Craig leads the homicide thriller collection as Detective Benoit Blanc.
The success of 2019’s Knives Out led Netflix to accumulate two sequels, with Glass Onion premiering in 2022 and Wake Up Lifeless Man set to launch later this yr.
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter on the BFI London Movie Competition, Johnson revealed that Knives Out 4 hasn’t entered growth. The director admitted that he has no thought what the following installment of the thriller franchise may very well be. Nonetheless, he says he prefers to begin ideating from scratch. Learn his feedback under:
I bought nothing. You probably have something, I’ll take it. I feel it’s good to completely empty the nicely after which begin from scratch on the following one.
The director went on to reward Craig, his longtime collaborator and star of the franchise, saying that so long as they each get pleasure from making the movies and audiences get pleasure from watching them, the Knives Out franchise will proceed.
So long as Daniel and I’ve enjoyable doing it, and he desires to do them, so long as audiences like them, and likewise so long as we are able to preserve difficult ourselves and developing with one thing that’s genuinely new. We’re on the identical web page that the second, it looks like we’re simply turning the crank on one other one.
Wake Up Lifeless Man unites Craig with an ensemble solid that features Glenn Shut, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor, Thomas Haden Church, and Daryl McCormack.
The movie will see Benoit Blanc investigating the murder of a priest in an upstate New York parish, the place he’ll dig right into a congregation stuffed with suspicious figures in what’s set to be Benoit’s most harmful case and Knives Out’s darkest chapter but.
The Knives Out franchise has change into one in all trendy cinema’s most dependable unique tales. The 2019 unique was launched in theatres by Lionsgate, incomes over $310 million worldwide and an Academy Award nomination for Greatest Unique Screenplay, and holds a 97% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Glass Onion, the 2022 Netflix sequel, reached over 200 million viewing hours on the streamer and was met with related important acclaim, holding a 91% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Wake Up Lifeless Man debuted with a 100% Tomatometer and presently holds a 92% rating primarily based on 61 critiques.
Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller is about to launch in choose theaters November 26 and on Netflix December 12.
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December 12, 2025
- Runtime
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144 minutes
- Producers
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Ram Bergman
