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Photo: Claire Folger/Lionsgate and MRC Earlier this week, Netflix closed a monumentally pricey deal to bring two sequels to director Rian Johnson’s hit 2019 movie Knives Out to the streaming service. All we know about their plots at press time is that they’ll be Agatha Christie–esque mysteries to be unpacked and potentially solved by Daniel Craig’s taffy-mouthed private eye, Benoit Blanc.
Faye Dunaway Photo: Gerald Matzka/picture alliance via Getty Images These kinds of drawing-room style murder mysteries pretty much always have at least one aging, veteran actor among the cast of suspects . Knives Out of course had the late Christopher Plummer, but don’t forget Bette Davis in Death on the Nile, or James Mason in Evil Under the Sun, or John Gielgud in Appointment With Death.
Matt Berry Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Obviously Matt Berry. Obviously! But it’s extremely hard to decide if he should play Detective Blanc’s no-good boss who thinks he’s wasting his time or the murder victim’s no-good brother-in-law who we eventually find out owes a lot of money on some bad investments. Regardless, he’ll need a white suit jacket and a pipe, but he can probably supply his own scarf.