Knives Out 2 has officially begun filming in Greece. The upcoming film serves as the first of two sequels that will follow Southern detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he solves yet another baffling mystery in a gorgeous Mediterranean setting. Day one of filming on the next Benoit Blanc mystery, wrote Johnson in his post. Thanks to all the lovely people here in Greece for letting us do all this murdering on their peaceful shores.
Check out Johnson s on-set photo below:
The joint
Knives Out sequels are a part of a lucrative deal at Netflix that totals $450 million. Johnson, producer Ram Bergman and Craig are poised to walk away with up to $100 million each. Johnson will be given immense creative control over these movies, which he says will be approached much differently than the first.
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Knives Out 2 decides not to wait for it, adds Leslie Odom Jr.
Last week, inspired by the daily string of excellent
Knives Out 2 casting announcements,
The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson’s latest offer went to someone we didn’t think of: Leslie Odom Jr., fresh off of an Oscar nomination for his work in
One Night In Miami (and also he was apparently in something called
Hamilton). He’ll be joining, in reverse order of when they were announced, Kathryn Hahn, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, and Daniel Craig (who, as far as we know at this point, will be the only returning character from the first movie). This casting also debunks our theory that Johnson was specifically picking up people who had been in Marvel movies, as up until now Craig and Monáe were the only ones who had never met Iron Man, so that was apparently just a statistical inevitability caused by how many actors have been in Marvel movies and not a conscious decision.
Leslie Odom Jr. Joins Daniel Craig & Dave Bautista in Knives Out 2
The all-star cast for Rian Johnson’s
One Night in Miami,
Hamilton) will be joining the star-studded sequel.
No information on who Odom will play has been revealed, but he’ll also join the previously announced Kathryn Hahn and Janelle Monáe in the film featuring returning star Daniel Craig that’s looking to live up to its predecessor in terms of name recognition. Plot details for the sequel are currently unknown, but the film will likely continue in the footsteps of the original and deliver a brand new murder mystery for Craig’s Benoit Blanc to solve.