Rian Johnson reveals future plans for more parts of the 'Knives Out' franchise, ahead of the third installment's release

Filmmaker Rian Johnson is talking about what the future holds for the Knives Out franchise, and it appears that Benoit Blanc fans will have more mysteries to ponder after the third installment.Johnson recently told Rolling Stone that he is excited to continue the murder mystery story and that the process continues to inspire him creatively. “I feel great! Because I have genuinely taken a swing each time that I didn’t think would work,” Johnson said. “Ultimately, that’s the thing you’re trying to avoid. The second you feel like you know how to do this, that leads nowhere good.”Every Knives Out film is intended to be a novel and distinctive experience, Johnson underlined.

“With the movies, we can keep doing that,” he stated. “I don’t have something in my head right now. You kind of burn the ship into the sea each time and ask yourself, ‘How will I make anything ever again?’ But I would keep doing them as long as I can.”The franchise started with the critically and commercially successful films Knives Out in 2019 and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery in 2022. By the end of 2025, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third movie, will be available on Netflix.

Regarding the new movie's tone, Johnson disclosed that Wake Up Dead Man will be very different from the previous one. “It’s incredibly different,” he remarked. “It’s much more a Gothic, much more grounded tone. It’s more similar to the first one in that way. It kind of gets back to the real origins of the genre, which, predating [Agatha] Christie, go back to [Edgar Allan] Poe.”The future of Knives Out appears bright—and mysterious—with Daniel Craig returning to his role as detective Benoit Blanc and Johnson still full of new ideas.