Knives Out 2: Leslie Odom Jr. joins Daniel Craig in Netflix sequel

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

With an ensemble cast that included Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Ana de Armas, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, and more, Rian Johnson's Knives Out was an embarrassment of riches and will likely prove hard to top, but the upcoming Knives Out sequel is certainly game to try.

Daniel Craig will of course be reprising his role of Detective Benoit Blanc for Netflix's Knives Out sequel, and THR has reported that Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) is the latest member to sign on, joining the already cast Kathryn Hahn, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, and Edward Norton. As expected, the nature of Odom Jr.'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," 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." Leslie Odom Jr. will next be seen in The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which will hit theaters and HBO Max on September 24, 2021.