Daniel Craig was Rian Johnson’s dream choice to play Benoit Blanc in “Knives Out.” But it nearly wasn’t meant to be.
In an interview with IndieWire, Johnson talked about his latest (and hopefully not final) film in the “Knives Out” series: “Wake Up Dead Man.” Craig returns in the film as masterful, Southern detective Blanc — though a “James Bond” scheduling conflict nearly kept this actor/character union from happening.
“When we were first trying to get ‘Knives Out’ made, Daniel wasn’t available. He was doing the ‘Bond’ movies,” Johnson revealed. “He was my first choice for it, but he was a hard ‘not available’ because he was on the Bond movies.
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