Netflix has confirmed that the next instalment of its hit Knives Out film franchise will appear in 2025. The series, which first hit the screens in 2019, introduced the world to the suave southern detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who specialises in solving murder mysteries that feature serpentine plot twists and red herrings galore, taking a few joyous swipes at the uber-wealthy along the way. Wake Up Dead Man is the third in the series, which writer/director Rian Johnson promises will be Blanc’s “most dangerous case yet”.
As ever, Wake Up Dead Man features a star-studded cast including Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis, Glenn Close and Jeremy Renner. Knives Out has a huge following for a reason – who doesn’t want to see unpleasant wealthy people get their comeuppance in increasingly elaborate and improbably ways? Johnson’s scripts work in part because they are rooted in his very public love of classic detective fiction, which stems from the “Golden Age” of crime – a period in the 1920s and 1930s when the world was obsessed with murder mysteries and amateur detectives such as Hercule Poirot. There are quite a few books – and films – out there if you want something to tide you over until the next Knives out movie hits the screens.
Here are five suggestions to keep you going. 1. If you like murder in closed communities: And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie Agatha Christie is the unimpeachable monarch of crime fiction.
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