How Noah Segan’s ‘Knives Out’ Performance Led to ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’

Like so many independent filmmakers, it took years for writer-director Noah Segan to get his new film “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” off the ground and into production. But the film finally became reality thanks in part to Segan’s role in the 2019 hit film “Knives Out” and the relationship he built with its director, Rian Johnson.

Segan told TheWrap at the Sundance Film Festival that while playing a comic relief cop investigating the murder of famed author Harlan Thrombey, he told Johnson that he was working on a film of his own and let him be the first person to read the script about a Big Apple…