Knives Out writer-director Rian Johnson is poised to unleash his wickedly funny whodunit on audiences; one that puts a very modern spin on the age-old genre. Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, a “gentleman detective” investigating the murder of a member of the family from hell. The Thrombey family is played by the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Chris Evans, and Michael Shannon.
IGN recently caught up with Johnson a few hours before the film played at Fantastic Fest, and we asked about his love of whodunits, the complicated politics of the film, and whether or not certain elements of Knives Out are a reaction to the online fallout from his Star Wars film, The Last Jedi…
Source: IGN.com Rian Johnson on How Knives Out Re-Invents the Whodunit for Modern Times