Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc has a long life ahead of him on the big screen.
Lionsgate did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Johnson wrote the 2019 film, which became a box office success with its A-list cast includingChris Evans,Christopher Plummer,Jamie Lee Curtis,Toni Collette, Katherine Langford,Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, LaKeith Stanfield and breakout starAna de Armas.
The two sequels will find a home at Netflix, with the streaming site paying more than $400 million, according toDeadline.
Ana de Armas and Daniel Craig inKnives Out.Claire Folger/Lionsgate
Knives Outwas born out of Johnson’s love for Agatha Christie novels, and he set out to write his own whodunnit centering around the death of a crime novelist (Plummer), which sets off a fight for his estate among his children and grandchildren.
Among the dysfunctions of his family, Det. Benoit Blanc investigates the suspicious circumstances of his death with everyone in the family a suspect.
The film earned $311 million worldwide and Johnson earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2020.
Claire Folger
After receiving the Oscar nomination, Johnson toldDeadlinehe “had such a good time making” the film that he was looking forward to a sequel.
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“[I had] such a great time working with Daniel, and now just seeing that audiences are responding to it, the idea of continuing it on seems like it would just be a blast,” Johnson said. “But there’s a lot that has to happen before that can happen, first and foremost being writing a script. So, we’ll see.”
The upcoming sequels are set to give Craig a new franchise once his final James Bond film,No Time to Die, finally hits theaters later this after several postponed dates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
source: people.com
