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Rian Johnson has revealed that he plans to take a break from Knives Out, but remains \u201cenergized\u201d about returning to the Netflix murder mystery franchise in the future.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Deadline\u2019s Contenders London on Saturday, Johnson said he was working on an original script that will take him away from the world of detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n He appeared on stage alongside actor Josh O\u2019Connor and producer Ram Bergman to promote Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third instalment in the series.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m writing right now, [but] it\u2019s not one of these [Knives Out] films. It\u2019s just something completely different, an original thing,\u201d Johnson explained. \u201cI actually feel very energized after making this one [Wake Up Dead Man], but this is three in a row. It\u2019s probably healthy to see other people.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson did not reveal further details about his original project or whether it will be housed with Netflix. He signed a lucrative two-film deal with the streamer on the Knives Out franchise following the success of the original 2019 feature.<\/p>\n During the Contenders London event, Johnson said Wake Up Dead Man is closer to an Agatha Christie mystery than previous films.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe reality of this movie, it has almost like a more traditional murder mystery structure,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is how most Agatha Christie books work, where in the first act you meet all the suspects, you meet the protagonist, who\u2019s not the detective. Then the murder happens, and the detective shows up.\u201d<\/p>\n Blanc is facing a darker mystery than in films past, with religious intrigue centered around its protagonist, played by O\u2019Connor, and with gothic elements inspired by the classic works of Edgar Allen Poe. O\u2019Connor stars as Jud Duplencity, a priest sent to a remote outpost in Upstate New York, who becomes a kind of sidekick to Blanc in solving the mystery.<\/p>\n O\u2019Connor told Contenders London that it was a joy to work with Craig, revealing that the James Bond star is \u201cso willing to give his skill away\u201d as an actor. O\u2019Connor joked, however, that Craig has \u201cgoofball\u201d qualities and is \u201cincredibly cheeky\u201d on set.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’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 ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rian Johnson has revealed that he plans to take a break from Knives Out, but remains \u201cenergized\u201d about returning to the Netflix murder mystery franchise in the future. Speaking at Deadline\u2019s Contenders London on Saturday, Johnson said he was working on an original script that will take him away from the world of detective Benoit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029532,"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":[315331,360424,360420,331372,23191,360419],"class_list":["post-2083661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-daniel-craig","tag-josh-oconnor","tag-knives-out","tag-murder-mystery","tag-netflix","tag-rian-johnson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/In-Black-Rabbit-Jason-Bateman-and-Jude-Law-are-brothers.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083661","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=2083661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083662,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083661\/revisions\/2083662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}