He outfoxed a cable knit carrying Chris Evans in Knives Out. He outsmarted Edward Norton’s vainglorious billionaire buffoon Miles Bron in Glass Onion. And in Rian Johnson’s upcoming homicide thriller threequel Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, it seems like Daniel Craig’s Foghorn Leghorn-accented sleuth Benoit Blanc may be gearing as much as face the Almighty itself. However worry not, expensive reader, as Blanc will not be going to church on his lonesome. In a newly launched first-look picture from Johnson’s hotly anticipated sequel, we see Craig’s Blanc stood in God’s home with a collar-sporting, clergyman Josh O’Connor. Test it out under;
Stained glass home windows. A sombre wanting Blanc and a involved wanting O’Connor. That apocalyptic, Jesus beckoning U2 observe for a title. The Gothic wanting font on the title remedy. Is it simply us or is Johnson teeing up one thing spooky — maybe even supernatural — for Benoit Blanc’s self-described “most harmful case but”? Nicely that, regardless of our greatest sleuthing efforts, we have no idea (although Johnson did say “See you on the opposite aspect” when revealing the primary photograph of Craig on set a couple of months again…) What we do know nevertheless is that the line-up of potential killers and victims third time round is presumably Johnson’s starriest array but, boasting *deep breath* the aforementioned O’ Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Glenn Shut, Kerry Washington, Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, Jeremy Renner, and Mila Kunis. Hoo boy!
With the equally starry second season of Johnson’s different sleuthing collection Poker Face additionally set to hit our screens in 2025, The Final Jedi director is displaying no indicators of slowing down as he barrels in the direction of his Benoit Blanc trilogy capper. And whereas we watch for Johnson to fill the proverbial donut gap of his newest homicide thriller for us later this 12 months, we’re off to order a contemporary batch of crimson string, some pins, and an enormous ol’ cork board as we attempt to persuade the lots that Blanc’s about to go all Scooby-Doo on us. Jinkies!
