‘Knives Out 3’ Adds Andrew Scott to Cast

Rian Johnson‘s third Knives Out film is constant to develop its solid.

Andrew Scott joins the rising listing of performers for the newest movie within the crime franchise, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Final week, director Johnson introduced the film’s title as Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller.

Scott joins beforehand confirmed castmembers Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny within the challenge that counts Johnson and Ram Bergman as producers.

Netflix introduced final week that the third movie will comply with a brand new homicide thriller in a yet-to-be-disclosed setting and can function one other colourful array of suspects catching the eye of returning detective Benoit Blanc (Craig).

Scott lately starred within the Netflix collection Ripley, with the difference of writer Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Gifted Mr. Ripley debuting final month. Scott was seen in final yr’s drama function All of Us Strangers and can be identified for roles within the collection Fleabag and His Darkish Supplies.

In a post on X (previously Twitter) final week, Johnson revealed that Knives Out 3 would quickly be heading into manufacturing. He additionally famous on the social media platform on the time, “I really like the whole lot about whodunnits, however one of many issues I really like most is how malleable the style is.”

The preliminary 2019 movie Knives Out was launched by Lionsgate and surpassed $310 million on the international field workplace. It featured an ensemble solid that included Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Plummer.

THR beforehand reported that Netflix ponied up greater than $450 million for a pair of sequels. Its first follow-up, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, hit the streaming service in 2022 and starred Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista alongside Craig.

Selection was first to report the information of Scott’s casting.