Netflix has reportedly forked out over $400 million for two exclusive Knives Out follow-ups.
Rian Johnson scored a big win with 2019’s Knives Out, a star-studded ‚whodunnit‘ that proved both a critical and commercial hit for the writer-director following his successful-yet-divisive Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. Johnson announced plans for a Knives Out sequel shortly after the first film’s release that would see Daniel Craig return as detective Benoit Blanc to solve an entirely new mystery. Although news on the follow-up has been quiet since then, a major development has occurred today, with Variety reporting that Netflix has purchased the rights to not one, but two Knives Out sequels for the astonishing price of $450 million.
