Rian Johnson has no desire to kill off his hit crime caper franchise “Knives Out,” despite his lucrative two-picture contract with Netflix having come to an end. Off the back of the success of the first “Knives Out,” the streamer in 2021 paid a reported $450 million for the rights to two sequels, a deal now complete with third installment …
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Wake Up Dead Man has arrived in London, just in time for spooky season. Director-writer Rian Johnson ushered in the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night with the hotly anticipated third installment of his Knives Out series, out on Netflix on Dec. 12 and starring Daniel Craig as the fan-favorite detective Benoit Blanc. Joining the filmmaker at the October …
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“Can I get an ‘Amen?’” Rian Johnson bellowed while welcoming a packed house to the world premiere of his third “Knives Out” installment, “Wake Up Dead Man,” on Saturday night at the Toronto Film Festival. The crowd generously complied, but their early shouts of “amen” paled in comparison to the laughs and cheers that echoed through the theater for much …
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Rian Johnson got pretty candid about his time working for Lucasfilm in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. The Last Jedi filmmaker is currently out there promoting the Season 2 finale of his Peacock series Poker Face, and when talking to the outlet, he opened up about his (positive) reaction to The Rise of Skywalker and why his Star Wars trilogy never …
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This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Poker Face, now streaming on Peacock. The second season of Poker Face nearly ends on a cliffhanger. Towards the end of the finale — appropriately titled “The End of the Road” — the show’s human lie detector heroine, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), is stuck in her beloved 1969 Plymouth Barracuda with master …
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“Knives Out” director Rian Johnson is opening up about his scrapped “Star Wars” trilogy. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Johnson, who directed 2017’s “The Last Jedi,” lifted the curtain on his long-rumored “Star Wars” trilogy that never got off the ground. He explained that at the time, he and Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy were developing ideas for the …
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