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Star Wars director Rian Johnson's takes on the whodunit boasts a cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Daniel Craig and Lakeith Stanfield....
Star Wars director Rian Johnson's takes on the whodunit boasts a cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Daniel Craig and Lakeith Stanfield.
Toni Collette stars as Joni Thrombey in a scene from the movie Knives Out. Supplied by Studiocanal.Source:News Regional Media
In one of the most expensive deals it’s ever made, Netflix is paying an extraordinary $597 million ($US450 million) for the exclusive rights to the sequels to 2019 movie Knives Out.
The enormous price tag will net the streaming giant Knives Out 2 and 3. Industry publication Variety reported the news earlier today.
At the time of the whodunit’s release, there was speculation there could be follow-ups given its critical and commercial success. Daniel Craig’s Poirot-like detective, Benoit Blanc, seemed primed for further cases and more stories.
It’s expected Craig and writer and director Rian Johnson will return. Knives Out was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
It was made on a budget of $US40 million and went on to gross $US311 million at the global box office. The Netflix deal would mean the sequels could have a significantly higher budget.
Variety reported that a source at one of Netflix’s competitors expected the deal would include considerable marketing spend.
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Daniel Craig is expected to return for the Knives Out sequels.Source:News Regional Media
The first film had a star-studded cast including Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lakeith Stanfield, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Katherine Langford, Don Johnson and the late Christopher Plummer.
Netflix has found streaming success with mainstream blockbuster original films starring bankable A-listers. Chris Hemsworth-starrer Extraction was watched by 99 million accounts, according to Netflix’s own data which counts a watch as someone who played at least two minutes.
It’s also had splashy movies starring the likes of Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Will Smith, Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler perform well.
The reported acquisition is an aggressive move by Netflix who finds itself in an increasingly competitive streaming space after the recent launches or relaunches of services from Disney, Apple, Paramount, NBC Universal and Warner Bros in addition to more established brands such as Amazon Prime Video.
Netflix passed the 200 million subscriber mark at the end of 2020, accelerated in part by enforced lockdowns due to the COVID pandemic.
Disney has signed up more than 100 million account holders since launching in late-2019.
In Australia, its local competitors also include Binge and Stan.
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With a surfeit of pretentious, over-produced and downright boring movies to signal this as one of the worst holiday seasons ever, many people crave a good old-fashioned murder mystery modeled after one of those intricately plotted page turners by Agatha Christie. Like me, they want a perfect head-scratcher, like Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Knives Out, from writer-director Rian Johnson (Star Wars:The Last Jedi), is not it, but as a spoof of Christie, it has a few giggles that in the final 15 minutes turn into guffaws.
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That comment is not meant as a negative. Intentional or not, this alleged thriller is more of a comedy, and maybe I’m just jaded, but to me, there isn’t a genuine thrill in sight. Still, I found it an enjoyable enough way to pass the time between clichés. The plot: Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a rich and famous crime novelist, is found the morning after his 85th birthday party, on the floor of his gloomy old country mansion with his throat slashed. The next two hours asks “whodunit”?KNIVES OUT ★★★ |
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It could be any member of his creepy staff or dysfunctional family. Everyone has a motive and they’re all suspects, including the old man’s daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her greedy husband Richard (Don Johnson), their worthless playboy son Ransom (Chris Evans) who has been disinherited on the night of the murder as the black sheep of the family, son Walt (Michael Shannon) who has just been fired from running his father’s publishing company, daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) who has been discovered stealing $100,000 year from Harlan, her avaricious daughter Meg (Katherine Langford), and, most important of all, Harlan’s devoted private nurse and personal confidante Marta (Ana de Armas), a Guatemalan immigrant and the only person in the house who supposedly had nothing to gain from his demise.
One by one, their lies, secrets, crimes and misdemeanors are discovered by Benoit Blanc, “the last of the gentleman detectives,” played by a miscast Daniel Craig with a cornball Southern accent that sounds like a mouth full of fried grits.
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In a concerted effort to keep the final reveal a secret, Johnson asks the audience in a filmed prologue not to become whistleblowers—an unnecessary request, to be sure, since Knives Out is so crammed full of plot twists, blackmail notes, toxicology reports and red herrings that you couldn’t explain what happens at gunpoint.
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Who hired Benoit Blanc, a cross between Hercule Poirot and Li’l Abner, anonymously? Who switched Harlan’s meds and filled his veins with morphine? I left asking more questions than the film ever answers, but it’s worth the effort when you get an occasional line of real wit like Craig’s description of a reading of the will as “a community theatre production of a tax return.”