{"id":415323,"date":"2025-11-30T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415323\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:37:27","slug":"rian-johnson-petitions-meryl-streep-to-join-knives-out-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415323\/","title":{"rendered":"Rian Johnson Petitions Meryl Streep To Join ‘Knives Out’ Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThough Rian Johnson<\/a> has noted there\u2019s no performer he counts as a \u201cwhite whale\u201d for his budding Benoit Blanc\/Knives Out<\/a> universe, there is one seasoned actress he\u2019d love to work with.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are so many great actors I\u2019d like to work with,\u201d the Academy Award nominee told our sister publication IndieWire recently<\/a>. \u201cBut, yes, if you\u2019re reading this, Meryl Streep<\/a>, I feel like you\u2019d slot into a murder mystery very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen told that the Big Little Lies alumna finally appeared on the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, Johnson added, \u201cIf Lorne [Michaels] can do it, then, goddamn, so can we.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Streep\u2019s resume speaks for itself (an understatement, to be sure), it should be noted that she\u2019s already made her mark in the comedic murder-mystery genre via Hulu\u2019s Only Murders in the Building, which wrapped the airing of its fifth season last month. (Next up, Streep will reprise her iconic role from The Devil Wears Prada, portraying the fierce editor-in-chief of a glossy, Miranda Priestly, in the film\u2019s 2026 sequel.)<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Johnson emphasized his love for making the Knives Out films, which first kicked off with the phenomenon of the first Ana de Armas vehicle released in 2019. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love working with actors so much,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are so many actors I haven\u2019t worked with I want to work with. And that\u2019s one of the real treats of making these movies is you get to experience new actors and these big casts. At the same time, I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t say: one of the great things about doing these movies is I get to know these actors so, when I\u2019m writing original stuff now, that are not these movies, of course I have everyone in mind for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a> is the third installment in the tonally sprawling film series, featuring a stacked cast in Josh Brolin, Josh O\u2019Connor, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Andrew Scott, Glenn Close and Thomas Haden Church. This go around, Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on an upstate New York town to solve the murder of a domineering and hate-spewing monsignor (Brolin). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Gothic and darkly satirical film, which bowed in certain theaters before the Thanksgiving holiday, will release on Netflix<\/a> Dec. 12. The box office take so far<\/a> has been upward of $4 million, with great word of mouth from critics and audiences alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Rian Johnson has noted there\u2019s no performer he counts as a \u201cwhite whale\u201d for his budding Benoit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,194836,25374,4659,20428,67,132,68,113812],"class_list":{"0":"post-415323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-knives-out","11":"tag-meryl-streep","12":"tag-netflix","13":"tag-rian-johnson","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115639395712465214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}