It would appear as if Rian Johnson's Knives Out 2 has daggers out for Kate Hudson after adding her to the ensemble cast. She joins previously announced cast members Daniel Craig, Dave Bautista, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, and Leslie Odom Jr. Craig will, of course, be reprising his role as Benoit Blanc for the sequel, which Netflix purchased (along with Knives Out 3) for upward of $400 million earlier this year.
As expected, the nature of Hudson's role, as well as the details of the plot itself, are being kept tightly under wraps. Production on the sequel is slated to kick off this summer in Greece.
Although the Knives Out sequel will obviously find Detective Benoit Blanc tackling another mystery, Rian Johnson has previously teased that we shouldn't expect more of the same for the sequel. "The same way Agatha Christie wrote a bunch of Poirot novels," said Johnson. "We can do that with Blanc and keep making new mysteries, you know, whole new cast, whole new location, whole new mystery, it's just another Beniot Blanc mystery. There are so many different things you could do with it." Johnson continued: "You look at Agatha Christie's books, for example, it's not like every single one is a mansion, and a family, and a library, and a detective. Besides settings, she also explored a bunch of different sub-genres, And Then They Were None is essentially a slasher film, it's basically a horror movie; The ABC Murders is kind of like a proto-serial killer movie in a way. She found a very different narrative way into each of them."
Up next for Hudson is her role as Simone Cleary in Michael Maren's Shriver. In the upcoming comedy, a handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote address. The film also stars Peyton List, Michael Shannon, Jimmi Simpson, Zach Braff, Wendi Malick, and Don Johnson. Beyond that, Hudson is also set to star in Ana Lily Amipour's Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon. Presented as a fantasy thriller, the film finds a girl with unusual powers escaping from a mental asylum and trying to make it on her own in New Orleans.
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