Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman reveal what must occur earlier than they’ll sharpen one other sequel

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, is one in every of 2022’s most anticipated movies. The follow-up to Johnson’s 2019 whodunit is a part of a novel rollout, which sees the movie screening in theaters for a month earlier than arriving on Netflix on December 23. Whereas it’s common for a Netflix-branded function to play in cinemas, Glass Onion is the primary to display screen exterior theaters owned by Cinemark. This element means locations like AMC and Regal can get in on the motion, including cash to Netflix’s coffers and holding these of us ready for the Netflix launch on our toes to keep away from spoilers. What does any of this imply for Knives Out 3? Learn on to seek out out.

Throughout a prolonged dialogue with Deadline about Glass Onion, producer Ram Bergman stated it was “very, crucial” to get the movie into cinemas to qualify it for the Oscars and generate buzz earlier than the whodunit debuts on Netflix. Bergman says the facility of seeing the film with 400 different individuals elevates the expertise, and Glass Onion needs a bit of the motion.

With Glass Onion presumed to change into a major hit, Bergman is bound theater homeowners will need Knives Out 3 to display screen in cinemas too. “Oh yeah, we’re serious about it,” says Bergman about Knives Out 3, “however we’d like this film to come back out first, then I want Rian to clear his head, take a break, after which go and begin. I imply, he’s been serious about it.”

All work and no play makes Rian Johnson a boring boy. It’s to be understood Johnson will want time to calm down after the PR curler coaster for Glass Onion has come to a screeching halt. Nevertheless, the longer term waits for nobody, and Netflix will need him to get to work on the next Knives Out film earlier than lengthy. The way in which Johnson tells it, he’s negotiated for some wiggle room, however he’s wanting to get again to the Knives Out universe sooner fairly than later.

“It’s fascinating. We structured the [Netflix deal] in order that if I wished to do one thing else subsequent, I might,” stated Johnson. “And I believe all people assumed I’d have a pair different random concepts — unrelated initiatives — that I’ve been kicking round. However, truthfully, over the previous couple of months, probably the most thrilling artistic factor to me proper now could be that third film. And so, I believe I’m going to hop proper into it. Not due to a contractual obligation, however, genuinely, that’s the shiny object I discover my nostril pointed towards proper now. [It’s] the concept of determining how it may be utterly completely different from this one in addition to the primary one.”

Fortunately, Johnson already has concepts for a 3rd installment of the collection, and he’s tempted to strike whereas the iron is scorching. “I’ve acquired a Moleskine pocket book that I carry all over the place and I’m always jotting stuff down in it,” he says. “The primary 80 p.c of the method, for me, is scribbling in notebooks and structuring all of it out. I’m making an attempt to get forward. Even once I’m doing all of the publicity for this movie, I’m making an attempt to begin build up a construction, an thought, in order that after New Yr, when it’s time to really get to work, I’m hopefully not simply observing that horrible clean web page. However you all the time are, I suppose.”

Anticipation for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller is at an all-time excessive, and followers can test the film out in terms of theaters on November 23, 2022. Will you see the movie in theaters or look ahead to the Netflix launch? Tell us within the feedback.