Glenn Close to star in “Knives Out 3”

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The 8-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close (heart of stone) is the latest addition to the cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Crime Thrillerthe third film in the Knife out Deadline can confirm this: The franchise from screenwriter and director Rian Johnson.

Details of her role are under wraps, as is the plot of the sequel. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc, with Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott and Kerry Washington also on board for roles. Production begins this month, with the film set to hit theaters sometime in 2025.

A contemporary revival of the crime genre, the Knife out The franchise revolves around the investigations of Craig’s character Blanc. The series launched in 2019 with Johnson’s crime thriller of the same name, starring Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer and others, which grossed over $310 million worldwide. Due to the popularity of the first film, which received an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, Netflix acquired the rights to produce two sequels for $450 million – the first of which Glass Onion: A Knives Out Crime Thrillerpublished in 2022.

Johnson directs Wake up, dead man based on his own screenplay and also produced for T-Street together with his partner Ram Bergman.

Last seen in the Netflix action film heart of stone with Gal Gadot and the Apple series The new look And TehranClose has a full schedule at the moment, which also includes Lee Daniels’ Netflix horror picture The redemption and action comedy Back in actionand the action comedy Brothers, which was recently acquired by Amazon MGM Studios, among other titles. News about their Knife out The casting was first reported by THR.