Rian Johnson Petitions Meryl Streep To Join ‘Knives Out’ Universe, Says Actress Would “Slot Into A Murder Mystery Very Well”

[ad_1] Although Rian Johnson has famous there’s no performer he counts as a “white whale” for his budding Benoit Blanc/Knives Out universe, there's one seasoned actress he’d like to work with.

“There are such a lot of nice actors I’d wish to work with,” the Academy Award nominee informed our sister publication IndieWire just lately. “However, sure, if you happen to’re studying this, Meryl Streep, I really feel such as you’d slot right into a homicide thriller very effectively.”

When informed that the Large Little Lies alumna lastly appeared on the fiftieth season of Saturday Night time Stay, Johnson added, “If Lorne [Michaels] can do it, then, goddamn, so can we.”

Whereas Streep’s resume speaks for itself (an understatement, to make sure), it must be famous that she’s already made her mark within the comedic murder-mystery style through Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing, which wrapped the airing of its fifth season final month. (Subsequent up, Streep will reprise her iconic position from The Satan Wears Prada, portraying the fierce editor-in-chief of a shiny, Miranda Priestly, within the movie’s 2026 sequel.)

Elsewhere within the interview, Johnson emphasised his love for making the Knives Out movies, which first kicked off with the phenomenon of the primary Ana de Armas automobile launched in 2019.

“I like working with actors a lot,” he stated. “There are such a lot of actors I haven’t labored with I need to work with. And that’s one of many actual treats of creating these films is you get to expertise new actors and these huge casts. On the identical time, I’d be mendacity if I didn’t say: one of many nice issues about doing these films is I get to know these actors so, after I’m writing authentic stuff now, that aren't these films, in fact I've everybody in thoughts for it.”

Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller is the third installment within the tonally sprawling movie collection, that includes a stacked solid in Josh Brolin, Josh O’Connor, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Andrew Scott, Glenn Shut and Thomas Haden Church. This go round, Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on an upstate New York city to resolve the homicide of a domineering and hate-spewing monsignor (Brolin).

The Gothic and darkly satirical movie, which bowed in sure theaters earlier than the Thanksgiving vacation, will launch on Netflix Dec. 12. The field workplace take to date has been upward of $4 million, with nice phrase of mouth from critics and audiences alike.