Knives Out 2: Jamie Lee Curtis gives an update on the Thrombey family

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

SPOILERS for Knives Out. Consider yourselves warned. After the huge success of Rian Johnson's whodunit thriller Knives Out, there was little doubt that Detective Benoit Blanc would be returning to solve more mysteries, but fans were still surprised when it was announced earlier this week that Netflix was selling out big bucks for not one, but two Knives Out sequels!

It remains to be seen exactly what sort of mysteries Detective Blanc will be tackling in the Knives Out sequel, but Jamie Lee Curtis took to Instagram (in character as Linda) to explain that the Thromby family will not be having anything more to do with Blanc.

"To clear up any rumors, the Thromby family is in family counseling and the therapist suggested they stay away from Benoit Blanc in the future," Curtis wrote. "Linda was fine as she kicked her loafer wearing prick of a husband, sorry @donjohnson to the curb. The rest of them are hustling. Ransom is apparently in the knitting sweater business, a new skill he picked up in the slammer. Joni has some vaginal scented bath bomb, Walt is self publishing his memoir. NONE of us will be joining Mr. Blanc in Greece. As the family spokesperson we wish the filmmakers all our best in their new venture."

Although the 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," Rian Johnson said, "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's 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."