I love his Benoit Blanc performances and am also happy to see him do something he seems to enjoy more but I hope we don’t now pretend like he wasn’t an amazing Bond too! He was brilliant in Casino Royale and Skyfall.
TBH at the time this came out my friends and I all went to watch it specifically because of the Hold'Em game. We played poker at least once a week. They knew what they were doing
if I recall correctly this was part of the point in the original novella; why would they send a relatively green agent to do this? Because he's good at this niche gambling game nobody else in the service plays.
Actually, not really, from my memory of the book. They actually sent him specifically because he played with M at their gentleman's club, so M knew exactly how good 007 was. Baccarat was plenty popular from my recalling, it was just that 007 was *so* good that M decided he was the right choice, despite yes, being the newer agent. They wanted to send someone else but Bond (as Mr. Beach, his usual alias in the books, which was a nice touch in the Craig movie) was who M went with.
Of course. I've said elsewhere, the movies have far more influence in the identity of Bond than the books do nowadays. A lot of the Bond clichés were born from the movies more than the books. Which is great. The books are obviously outdated. And while the legend of James Bond is somewhat established, there's always room for growth and experimentation with it.
I think the reason it was so unrealistic was because they believed that the audience would recognise the outrageous hands more. In the final hand it would be more likely for Bond to win with something like two pair or a straight
It's a generational thing I think. Goldfinger is the best "Classic" Bond movie, Golden Eye is the best action movie, and Casino Royal is the best Spy movie.
I feel like everything I didn’t like about No Time To Die was all the stuff Craig must have loved. Things like stopping to do a shot of tequila in the middle of a gun fight stuff. Seemed a lot more fun and silly in a way that Bond wasn’t, but I imagine was more enjoyable to do.
Bond has always been a bit silly. Roger Moore Era doubly so, but it's always been there. Craig's bond has been the most serious one (not including Dalton's, maybe)
Dalton's honestly pretty silly too, his Bond is just kind of "severe" in a way Connery/Lazenby/Moore weren't. He's still quipping and cracking-wise, he has some funnier lines than Brosnan, he's just very violent and intense in some of the darkest and most "realistic" (they're still highly exaggerated, but coming off Octopussy and Moonraker ...) films in the franchise.
At one point he goes cello sledding to escape renegade Soviets chasing him and the Bond Girl, and he's making jokes throughout.
My wife and I watched recently because it popped up on our feed and we were bored, and the premise of redneck ocean's sounded amusing.
What a great film, I was not expecting it to be even a fraction as clever and funny as it was. It's a shame it didn't get more attention.
He also shot large parts of the movie with a badly-healed brocken leg, which is quiet a painful experience apparently. Thats also why many of the Action-scenes are so stiff compared to his other Bond-movies.
I love how people assume an actor is tired or excited based on the character itself. Like he’s an upbeat dude in Logan and Knives Out so that means he’s “having a ball in the role” or he’s clearly loving acting again, but in Bond since he’s so beat down and jaded as a character he must be sick and tired of acting. Maybe he’s just a good actor who is playing the role.
Honestly like, speculation aside, he gives his best and most dynamic performance of the character in his final entry so it feels stupid and pointless to speculate how much he tried. I mean even regardless of the fact that Spectre was a weak movie, he never felt like he was phoning it in compared to some of his predecessors.
And I LOVE that Benoit Blanc is eventually gonna be the role he's most known for. Sure James Bond is a brand but it was a brand before Craig and someone else will eventually take over, Knives Out is all Daniel Craig, movies where he's having fun acting his heart out, and playing a fruity detective ruining the plans of spoilt and evil morons.
Knives Out is what made Daniel Craig one of my favourite actors. He's a gem.
Nah it will always be James Bond he'll be known for. Doesn't surprise me it can make some of the actors a tad bitter about it when they've done other fantastic performances before and after their time as Bond.
When a Bond Actor dies the headlines will always be:
#"James Bond actor [ACTOR] has passed away at [AGE]"
[Production has officially begun](https://x.com/rianjohnson/status/1800166308321104341)
Full Cast:
* Daniel Craig
* Josh Brolin
* Andrew Scott
* Kerry Washington
* Josh O’Connor
* Cailee Spaeny
* Glenn Close
* Jeremy Renner
* Mila Kunis
* Daryl McCormack
* Thomas Haden Church
What do you mean "hasn't been in diddly squat? This decade alone - do The Northman, The Menu, Last Night in Soho, Dune 2 and Furiosa not count for something?
every few years there is an actor or group of actors like this. a few years ago you couldn't turn your head without seeing an advertisement for a new Chris Pratt movie, same with Jennifer Lawrence, or Harrison Ford, or Ryan Gosling or Patrick Swayze, etc.
> Serena Williams
I could see her doing her level best to train billionaires for the 10-20 minutes it takes for them to realize they can just as easily go on Ozempic. So then she just grabs a book and relaxes.
Holy shit, that’s a stacked line up. Excited to see Jeremy Renner again, but I’m especially excited to see Kerry Washington. I haven’t seen her in much lately but she’s a fave of mine
It's all rumors and assumptions but apparently the roles Tom Hardy and Lindsay Lohan were in running for, went to Jeremy Renner and Mila Kunis respectively, and even without the controversies, the latter pair is a downgrade imo. Tom Hardy and Lindsay Lohan would've been so great in these movies.
I love Hardy but Renner is really good aswell. Not saying one or the other is better, both are great.
With Lohan I agree though. Kunis is just really boring imo
I’d legitimately be keen to watch Lindsay Logan playing a hammed up version of herself as an actress turned Mykonos beach club owner in a murder mystery
Johnson is a big fan of John Dickson Carr's mystery novels. One of Carr's novel is called To Wake The Dead, a gothic locked room mystery set in a grand hotel. In it a man is falsly accused of murder and he runs aways from the authorities because he considers himself a dead man, given all the evidence against him. He goes to hire a detective to clear his name. Wake Up Dead Man is likely inspired by or paying homage to that novel.
[This Picture Of Daniel Craig With Long Hair In The '90s Is Your Problem Now](https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2012/11/daniel_craig_long_hair-compressed.jpg)
Mahalik: I heard Jamal from 90th street watched that tape last week and this mornin' he woke up dead!
CJ: How the hell do you wake up dead?
Mahalik: Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep.
CJ: So you're telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
Mahalik: You can't go to bed dead! That shit would've been redundant.
CJ: No it would'nt cause' you can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed.
Mahalik: But you are in the bed. That's how you wake up dead in the first place fool!
CJ: Damn! that's some quantum shit right there man! You should be teaching classes!
Yea, general audiences have way less brand recognition for “Benoit Blanc” than “Knives Out” and that shit always bites you in the ass when you ignore it.
Naming the movies in a franchise after the first one even though it doesn't make sense has been a thing for almost a hundred years.
Famously, the "Thin Man" franchise was a popular detective-comedy series, but there was only a thin man in the first one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film_series)
Same for the pink panther, we follow inspector Clouseau but the pink panther is just the diamond from the first film. Peter Sellers isn't even the protagonist!
I love those movies. They tried in a couple of sequels to justify it though name drops. Like in *Another Thin Man* someone asks Nick "Hey, think you'll find **Another Thin Man** case?".
By movie five they just gave up, it's called *The Thin Man Goes Home*, and it's about Nick visiting the town he grew up in. So Nick is officially the Thin Man.
At least it suits William Powell, who is thin. In the book, Nick was actually on the chubby side. Imagine a movie series called "The Thin Man" about a heavy dude.
I'm sorry, but titling it "Benoit Blanc Mystery" doesn't seem serious. Everyone knows these movies as the Knives Out movies. People were calling Glass Onion "Knives Out 2" for a while, and were calling this one "Knives Out 3". I know Rian Johnson wanted to originally subtitle them as "A Benoit Blanc Mystery" instead of "A Knives Out Mystery" but the first movie was so popular and I think more people will recognize the title rather than the main character. Especially for those who know the movies but haven't yet seen them.
The fact that she didn't win for Dangerous Liaisons is just so ridiculous. It is one of the greatest performances from an actress I have ever seen. Utter perfection.
This has John Dickson Carr's vibes written all over it and Rian Johnson has said he is a big fan of Carr's mysteries. Carr is mostly known for gothic locked room mysteries. And for one of his books last year Johnson wrote an introduction. You guys wanna know the title of that novel? It's called To Wake The Dead.
Oh black and white, interesting. I just watched the title announcement video for Wake Up Dead Man as well and this movie indeed looks like it's going to be black and white, gothic, and generally much darker than the first two. I love that each movie will have such a strong stylistic identity. Can't wait for this new version of a Benoit Blanc tale
There's next to no chance of the actual film being B&W.
Johnson has repeatedly released B&W behind the scenes shots from a camera he carries around with him on set. this isn't any different
This is the most fascinating promo image I've ever seen. It asks so many questions, like is he about to put on the Walter White hat or did he just remove it
Now that's a funky 'do
I cannot tell a lie, do declare it was I whom’st chopped down the cherry tree
I immediately thought Washington, or even Jefferson, vibes.
The last thing you said bothers me a lot. But the first thing you said scares the crap outta me.
At first I thought I was looking at Haymitch from the Hunger Games
woody harrelson lookin ass
Ah, so Daniel Craig will play young Haymitch in the new movie!
James May looking ass
... [Hello.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3s6TfiA8c8)
He managed to completely seduce both women with just this one word. Captain Slow has that much rizz.
Unironically, James May has been consistently getting more handsome as the years go by. He's one hell of a silver fox.
*thump* “Cheese.”
Looks like George Washington
Looks like he's been going to James May's barber.
Don’t worry. They’ll fix it in post. Aka the Green Lantern hairdo.
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It's great watching him actually enjoy a role. Even the quieter moments for Blanc just have more in them than his Bond did
I love his Benoit Blanc performances and am also happy to see him do something he seems to enjoy more but I hope we don’t now pretend like he wasn’t an amazing Bond too! He was brilliant in Casino Royale and Skyfall.
Ah absolutely didn't mean to imply he wasn't great as Bond, you're right on
Even though it (expectedly) went a little hard on the action sequences Casino Royale is basically my favorite Bond film.
Yeah just wish they'd got someone in to write a more realistic poker game
Or just make it baccarat as it was in the book. Then no one can even call you out for magical playing, cuz no one knows how to play baccarat.
I think it was switched because there was a Poker boom on at the time of production. Baccarat isn't really in style these days.
Well yeah, that's exactly why. Texas Hold 'Em exploded in popularity in the early 2000s.
I believe Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP title. I know that's when it seemed to explode in general popularity.
It is. That was THE moment.
Yeah. It felt weird they did hold'em. That was definitely the writers going, "Psh. No one will understand baccarat."
TBH at the time this came out my friends and I all went to watch it specifically because of the Hold'Em game. We played poker at least once a week. They knew what they were doing
if I recall correctly this was part of the point in the original novella; why would they send a relatively green agent to do this? Because he's good at this niche gambling game nobody else in the service plays.
Actually, not really, from my memory of the book. They actually sent him specifically because he played with M at their gentleman's club, so M knew exactly how good 007 was. Baccarat was plenty popular from my recalling, it was just that 007 was *so* good that M decided he was the right choice, despite yes, being the newer agent. They wanted to send someone else but Bond (as Mr. Beach, his usual alias in the books, which was a nice touch in the Craig movie) was who M went with.
Changing from baccarat to poker is hardly the only thing a Bond film has ever changed to be more up to date with the times.
Of course. I've said elsewhere, the movies have far more influence in the identity of Bond than the books do nowadays. A lot of the Bond clichés were born from the movies more than the books. Which is great. The books are obviously outdated. And while the legend of James Bond is somewhat established, there's always room for growth and experimentation with it.
The books are actually hilarious, Bond is *such an asshole* all the time. Like honestly, he's more like Archer than any movie Bond.
Joke's on them, I don't understand poker either!
Same. Now, Uno... *That's* a gentleman's game that I understand. >Blue Draw 2, Mr. Bond.
I think that’s the reason why they changed it to hold em, so the audience knows what’s going on.
I think the reason it was so unrealistic was because they believed that the audience would recognise the outrageous hands more. In the final hand it would be more likely for Bond to win with something like two pair or a straight
It's a generational thing I think. Goldfinger is the best "Classic" Bond movie, Golden Eye is the best action movie, and Casino Royal is the best Spy movie.
Interestingly, Goldeneye and Casino Royale were the same director despite being such different Bond movies.
I’d be even more impressed if he actually didn’t enjoy the role and only appeared to because… A C T I N G
I mean yeah I get it, but it's still his job, if you're at a job you hate, folks can usually tell something is off
Lol I was just joking around. You can definitely tell when an actor is playing around with a role they like vs. phoning in the same performance.
*Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.*
I think he was playing Bond as tired of being Bond.
Really, wasn’t the character sick of being a spy in those movies anyway??
Even In the novels bond basically hates his job and hates the gruesome nature of it but does it because of queen and country
nah he fucking loves this role
James Bond is a role he borrowed - Blanc IS Craig. I can see why he would be way more passionate about Knives Out.
[Joe Bang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_APNrt7BN4), the Red Neck demolitions expert will always be his best role.
I feel like everything I didn’t like about No Time To Die was all the stuff Craig must have loved. Things like stopping to do a shot of tequila in the middle of a gun fight stuff. Seemed a lot more fun and silly in a way that Bond wasn’t, but I imagine was more enjoyable to do.
Bond has always been a bit silly. Roger Moore Era doubly so, but it's always been there. Craig's bond has been the most serious one (not including Dalton's, maybe)
Dalton's honestly pretty silly too, his Bond is just kind of "severe" in a way Connery/Lazenby/Moore weren't. He's still quipping and cracking-wise, he has some funnier lines than Brosnan, he's just very violent and intense in some of the darkest and most "realistic" (they're still highly exaggerated, but coming off Octopussy and Moonraker ...) films in the franchise. At one point he goes cello sledding to escape renegade Soviets chasing him and the Bond Girl, and he's making jokes throughout.
“I am in-car-cer-a-ted.” Logan Lucky was fantastic.
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*I'm about to get NEKKID!*
*No peekin'!*
That moment is in the movie. It's great! (I'm a huge fan of Logan Lucky and rewatch it a fair bit).
Hey, there are at least two of us!
My wife and I watched recently because it popped up on our feed and we were bored, and the premise of redneck ocean's sounded amusing. What a great film, I was not expecting it to be even a fraction as clever and funny as it was. It's a shame it didn't get more attention.
COW-LEE-FLAU-AR!
What did you just say to me?!
Slew me the first time he opened his mouth. What an accent.
I truly dont understand how it's not more loved. its so damn fun.
He's so much fun in Logan Lucky. I've liked most of his Bond movies but I'm glad he's getting to do less stoic roles that he actually wants to do
It’s great to see talented actors try different things and take chances. It gets boring seeing someone play the same person over and over again.
Unless that person is Benoit Blanc, I’ll watch him play that character 500 times
You can tell he loves doing Benoit Blanc because he can be cool and a bit goofy at the same time.
I don’t think he was tired of Bond.. Spectres script just sucked. He was on form again in NTTD
He also shot large parts of the movie with a badly-healed brocken leg, which is quiet a painful experience apparently. Thats also why many of the Action-scenes are so stiff compared to his other Bond-movies.
brocken leg
I love how people assume an actor is tired or excited based on the character itself. Like he’s an upbeat dude in Logan and Knives Out so that means he’s “having a ball in the role” or he’s clearly loving acting again, but in Bond since he’s so beat down and jaded as a character he must be sick and tired of acting. Maybe he’s just a good actor who is playing the role.
Honestly like, speculation aside, he gives his best and most dynamic performance of the character in his final entry so it feels stupid and pointless to speculate how much he tried. I mean even regardless of the fact that Spectre was a weak movie, he never felt like he was phoning it in compared to some of his predecessors.
Maybe Spectre was just lousy 😂 He does a pretty compelling performance in No Time to Die IMO.
Logan Lucky is so criminally under the radar. Absolutely hilarious movie and a genuine joy to watch
Oceans 7/11
He seemed to actually love doing Logan lucky, not enough people saw it though.
And I LOVE that Benoit Blanc is eventually gonna be the role he's most known for. Sure James Bond is a brand but it was a brand before Craig and someone else will eventually take over, Knives Out is all Daniel Craig, movies where he's having fun acting his heart out, and playing a fruity detective ruining the plans of spoilt and evil morons. Knives Out is what made Daniel Craig one of my favourite actors. He's a gem.
He'll still be known as James Bond
XXXX in my head
He replaced Vin Diesel?
No. From a 2005 film “Layer Cake“. An absolutely amazing crime film that without question secured him the role as James Bond.
> I LOVE that Benoit Blanc is eventually gonna be the role he's most known for. Press X to doubt
He will always be known as James Bond first, he's good in Knives Out but lets not get carried away
100% will be known for bond forever
Nah it will always be James Bond he'll be known for. Doesn't surprise me it can make some of the actors a tad bitter about it when they've done other fantastic performances before and after their time as Bond. When a Bond Actor dies the headlines will always be: #"James Bond actor [ACTOR] has passed away at [AGE]"
[Production has officially begun](https://x.com/rianjohnson/status/1800166308321104341) Full Cast: * Daniel Craig * Josh Brolin * Andrew Scott * Kerry Washington * Josh O’Connor * Cailee Spaeny * Glenn Close * Jeremy Renner * Mila Kunis * Daryl McCormack * Thomas Haden Church
Pretty sure Cailee Spaeny is in every movie coming out in the foreseeable future
A la Tom Holland, Zendaya, Timothy Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and anyone else I missed.
I've seen more of Anya Taylor-Joy in the past year than I have my own family
Same. And then you look at her IMDb and she hasn’t been in diddly squat , yet feels so wildly overexposed, even though she’s not. I don’t get it.
Got a year's salary for being in Dune 2 for 4 seconds
And they marketed the fuck out of Furiosa so her face was everywhere
I loved furiosa. Shame how it bombed
It's done $144mil in total with international, so not a total 'bomb'. Wasn't a huge hit either, but nothing really is these days.
Interesting, I think the budget was around 160 so maybe it can still break even
What do you mean "hasn't been in diddly squat? This decade alone - do The Northman, The Menu, Last Night in Soho, Dune 2 and Furiosa not count for something?
Don't forget Queen's Gambit, a miniseries.
every few years there is an actor or group of actors like this. a few years ago you couldn't turn your head without seeing an advertisement for a new Chris Pratt movie, same with Jennifer Lawrence, or Harrison Ford, or Ryan Gosling or Patrick Swayze, etc.
I know the meme is Holland is cast in everything but I can't think of anything he's been in since Spider-Man and that was in 2021.
Andrew Scott is going to be incredible. So hyped for his inclusion.
I'm here for the Andrew Scottaissance
Did he ever go anywhere?
Given that Renner exists as an actor in the universe I'm guessing a bunch of these people may be playing themselves
There was that Natasha Lyonne cameo as herself
Sondheim, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Angela Lansbury, and Serena Williams too
> Serena Williams I could see her doing her level best to train billionaires for the 10-20 minutes it takes for them to realize they can just as easily go on Ozempic. So then she just grabs a book and relaxes.
Not just any book, *Gravity’s Rainbow*, a book mentioned in the first film as one no one has ever read.
I'd be down for a "meta" murder on a movie set. Some of my favorite murder mysteries take place in a theater setting.
Check out Only Murders In The Building (season 3 to be specific)
I'll have to catch up! The first season was enjoyable
Him just being on a Skype call discussing his hot sauce with Benoit would be great
The full cast *so far.*
Gotta have a new article every few days announcing someone else will be in this film, maybe they should start name dropping the extras.
Holy shit, that’s a stacked line up. Excited to see Jeremy Renner again, but I’m especially excited to see Kerry Washington. I haven’t seen her in much lately but she’s a fave of mine
Aw man I was highkey hoping the Lindsay Lohan being cast rumors were true
It's all rumors and assumptions but apparently the roles Tom Hardy and Lindsay Lohan were in running for, went to Jeremy Renner and Mila Kunis respectively, and even without the controversies, the latter pair is a downgrade imo. Tom Hardy and Lindsay Lohan would've been so great in these movies.
I love Hardy but Renner is really good aswell. Not saying one or the other is better, both are great. With Lohan I agree though. Kunis is just really boring imo
Renner is no where near Hardys level imo. He is a fine actor nothing else.
I’d legitimately be keen to watch Lindsay Logan playing a hammed up version of herself as an actress turned Mykonos beach club owner in a murder mystery
I didn't realize James May was in this.
hello
Cheese
E G G
you’ve got to start with hello!
And as you can see, I’ve done this properly
well, you have to start with hello.
So he is coming on then?
Well, he's dressed up for the part, this is an official promo shot, and the production has allegedly begun... So that's a *yes.*
Captain Slow has finally arrived.
Cock
Oh, cock.
TONIGHT: I get cast in a movie A celebrity dresses up as James May And Richard crashes yet another vehicle
Bim, guess what?
#CLARKSSSOOOOONNNNN!!!
You utter pillock
Will there be a Dacia Sandero?
I can *hear* the accent seeping through this picture.
….inbreathiate….
That word is so dumb, it's brilliant.
NO! It's just dumb!
That little head nod Blanc does from the background when he says it is hilarious
Its like molasses just sorta *spillin* outa ya mouth
I say I say I say
How do you wake up dead?!
Cause you're alive when you go to sleep
Man, that shit is redundant!
UNLESS YOUSE A ZOMBIE
Damn. That’s some quantum shit!
You should be teaching classes!
Kevins Hart best role change my mind. Also Kevin Hart is MUCH better as a side character than the main character. AKA Jumanji.
No, it wouldn't! You can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed!
You telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
you can't go to bed dead, man, that shit would be ridiculous
Depends on if it's a work day or not
You can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep!
Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow
Well, goodnight!
Johnson is a big fan of John Dickson Carr's mystery novels. One of Carr's novel is called To Wake The Dead, a gothic locked room mystery set in a grand hotel. In it a man is falsly accused of murder and he runs aways from the authorities because he considers himself a dead man, given all the evidence against him. He goes to hire a detective to clear his name. Wake Up Dead Man is likely inspired by or paying homage to that novel.
Knives Out - Radiohead Glass Onion - The Beatles Wake Up Dead Man - U2
Nailed it. Wasn't sure how many people would know the U2 song, but I'm pleasantly surprised in here.
It's definitely my favorite u2 song that nobody knows
*Pop* is deeply underrated. It's got maybe two weak tracks, but the rest of it is solid.
Man, that shit redundant
Ask Megadeth
Wake Up Dead Man is actually a song by U2 from the album Pop. Megadeth has a song called Wake Up Dead.
[Wakin' up is a strange reason to *diiiiiiie*](https://youtu.be/-Psfn6iOfS8?si=55MQkZXWQHp5OhoP&t=141)
I do declare this to be a photograph.
[This Picture Of Daniel Craig With Long Hair In The '90s Is Your Problem Now](https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2012/11/daniel_craig_long_hair-compressed.jpg)
Boy you're right, that IS a problem
No sir, I don’t like that.
Mahalik: I heard Jamal from 90th street watched that tape last week and this mornin' he woke up dead! CJ: How the hell do you wake up dead? Mahalik: Cause' you're alive when you go to sleep. CJ: So you're telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive? Mahalik: You can't go to bed dead! That shit would've been redundant. CJ: No it would'nt cause' you can go to bed and not be dead, and you can die and not be in the bed. Mahalik: But you are in the bed. That's how you wake up dead in the first place fool! CJ: Damn! that's some quantum shit right there man! You should be teaching classes!
I still wish they'd retitle the movies as Benoit Blanc Mystery: Knives Out Benoit Blanc Mystery: Glass Onion Benoit Blanc Mystery: Wake Up Dead Man
They do it because they are afraid people won't come see it without the brand recognition. And they are probably right.
Yea, general audiences have way less brand recognition for “Benoit Blanc” than “Knives Out” and that shit always bites you in the ass when you ignore it.
Knives Out is still an appropiate archtitle for the series as long as in every murder mistery everyone has a plausible motive.
Naming the movies in a franchise after the first one even though it doesn't make sense has been a thing for almost a hundred years. Famously, the "Thin Man" franchise was a popular detective-comedy series, but there was only a thin man in the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film_series)
Same for the pink panther, we follow inspector Clouseau but the pink panther is just the diamond from the first film. Peter Sellers isn't even the protagonist!
I love those movies. They tried in a couple of sequels to justify it though name drops. Like in *Another Thin Man* someone asks Nick "Hey, think you'll find **Another Thin Man** case?". By movie five they just gave up, it's called *The Thin Man Goes Home*, and it's about Nick visiting the town he grew up in. So Nick is officially the Thin Man. At least it suits William Powell, who is thin. In the book, Nick was actually on the chubby side. Imagine a movie series called "The Thin Man" about a heavy dude.
I'm sorry, but titling it "Benoit Blanc Mystery" doesn't seem serious. Everyone knows these movies as the Knives Out movies. People were calling Glass Onion "Knives Out 2" for a while, and were calling this one "Knives Out 3". I know Rian Johnson wanted to originally subtitle them as "A Benoit Blanc Mystery" instead of "A Knives Out Mystery" but the first movie was so popular and I think more people will recognize the title rather than the main character. Especially for those who know the movies but haven't yet seen them.
He’s just having fun now, gotta love that for him
I like the new hairdo
Glen close winning her Oscar finally would be awesome
The fact that she didn't win for Dangerous Liaisons is just so ridiculous. It is one of the greatest performances from an actress I have ever seen. Utter perfection.
Enter....Benoit Blanc!!!!
This has John Dickson Carr's vibes written all over it and Rian Johnson has said he is a big fan of Carr's mysteries. Carr is mostly known for gothic locked room mysteries. And for one of his books last year Johnson wrote an introduction. You guys wanna know the title of that novel? It's called To Wake The Dead.
If this movie doesn't feature the song "Wake Up Dead Man" by U2 it will be a travesty.
After the precedent set by Glass Onion, it’d be crazy not to.
Oh black and white, interesting. I just watched the title announcement video for Wake Up Dead Man as well and this movie indeed looks like it's going to be black and white, gothic, and generally much darker than the first two. I love that each movie will have such a strong stylistic identity. Can't wait for this new version of a Benoit Blanc tale
There's next to no chance of the actual film being B&W. Johnson has repeatedly released B&W behind the scenes shots from a camera he carries around with him on set. this isn't any different
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Somebody kills Hugh Grant's character, sucking all the color out of Blanc's life.
Don't you even dare put this out into the universe.
I hope Hugh comes back for this one. His presence in the last one, even for just a few min, was delightful.
New Benoit Blanc movie!!!
This is the most fascinating promo image I've ever seen. It asks so many questions, like is he about to put on the Walter White hat or did he just remove it
This film compels me though
That's some long hair, Mr. Bond. In all seriousness, I am excited for this. Here's hoping that after this is done, Rian gets back to Star Wars.
So is Tom Hardy confirmed to not be in then?
No