‘Knives Out’: ‘Sorry To Bother You’ Star Lakeith Stanfield Joins Daniel Craig And Chris Evans In Rian Johnson’s Murder Mystery
By Ben Pearson/Oct. 8, 2018 1:30 pm EST
Learn about Stanfield’s role below.
Knives Out was already one of my most anticipated films of next year because A) it’s a murder mystery, which is a genre I love, and B) it’s being written and directed by Rian Johnson, the filmmaker who got his start making fantastic indies like Brick and The Brothers Bloom before graduating to bigger sci-fi titles like Looper and a little-known feature called Star Wars: The Last Jedi. (It’s the best Star Wars film, don’t @ me.) But now I’m even more excited about it, because this film’s cast is shaping up to be absolutely killer.
According to Deadline, Stanfield and Daniel Craig will both be playing detectives in this modern-day whodunit. Evans’ role is still being kept under wraps, and there are approximately five other major roles left to fill. Johnson has been formulating this story for ten years as a nod to Agatha Christie-style classic mysteries; like all of his previous films, this will be the writer/director’s personal take on a well-worn genre.
Production is set to begin sometime this year, before Craig gets bogged down shooting Bond 25 and before Johnson heads back to a galaxy far, far away to direct his new Star Wars trilogy for Disney and Lucasfilm.
