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Rian Johnson has no desire to kill off his hit crime caper franchise \u201cKnives Out,\u201d despite his lucrative two-picture contract with Netflix having come to an end.<\/p>\n
Off the back of the success of the first \u201cKnives Out,\u201d the streamer in 2021 paid a reported $450 million for the rights to two sequels, a deal now complete with third installment \u201cWake Up Dead Man.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n But Johnson would love to keep going with the murder-solving escapades of his drawling detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t feel burnt out doing these at all. If anything I feel energized after doing this one,\u201d he said during a talk at the BFI London Film Festival on Thursday. \u201cSo as long as audiences want to keep seeing it, and Daniel and I are still having fun making them and still feel like we can come up with stuff that feels not just fresh, but a fresh challenge for us, I think that\u2019ll translate to a new experience for the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cFor now, I\u2019d be thrilled to keep making these for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n On Wednesday night, \u201cWake Up Dead Man\u201d opened the 2025 edition of the London Film Festival<\/a>, with Johnson on hand at the Royal Festival Hall to introduce the film alongside an impressive selection of his all-star cast, including Craig, Daryl McCormack, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Cailee Spaeny, Kerry Washington and Andrew Scott.<\/p>\n The film \u2014\u00a0in which Blanc investigates the mysterious death of Brolin\u2019s firebrand priest alongside O\u2019Connor as his fellow clergyman (and prime suspect) \u2014\u00a0was warmly received by the audience, which included the likes of Greta Gerwig and Andrew Lloyd Webber.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rian Johnson has no desire to kill off his hit crime caper franchise \u201cKnives Out,\u201d despite his lucrative two-picture contract with Netflix having come to an end. Off the back of the success of the first \u201cKnives Out,\u201d the streamer in 2021 paid a reported $450 million for the rights to two sequels, a deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[343908,315331,360420,23191,360419],"class_list":["post-2080269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bfi-london-film-festival","tag-daniel-craig","tag-knives-out","tag-netflix","tag-rian-johnson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Id-Be-Thrilled-to-Keep-Making-These-for-the-Rest.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080271,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080269\/revisions\/2080271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}