Knives Out followed an eccentric mystery writer who was murdered in his own house.

As Netflix faces steeper competition on the streaming front from newer platforms like Apple TV+, HBO Max, and Disney+, acquiring a splashy film franchise with an A-list star may be one attempt to keep the competition at bay. The Knives Out franchise is Netflix’s priciest film-acquisition expenditure to date by a wide margin-dwarfing the $90 million the streaming platform spent on Will Smith’s 2017 sci-fi action movie, Bright the $115 million for Ben Affleck’s Army-heist film, Triple Frontier and the $130 million for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which was critically acclaimed but surprisingly shut out of the 2020 Oscars. Craig reportedly earned upwards of $20 million on the Bond films toward the end of his time in the franchise, and this hefty paycheck may have played a role in the lofty sum Netflix doled out for the Knives Out sequels. He would, in fact, go on to film one more. His final film as 007 and the 25th film in the Bond franchise, No Time to Die, has been delayed multiple times due to the pandemic it’s currently set to hit theaters on October 8, 2021.Ĭraig has been vocal in the past about his distaste for large film franchises, telling Time Out London in 2015 that he’d rather “slash wrists” than make another Bond movie.

Craig has worn the 007 moniker for five films, beginning with 2006’s Casino Royale. The films will reunite Craig with Knives Out director Rian Johnson, whose original film was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.Ĭraig signs on to Netflix’s new tentpole after exiting another little franchise by the name of James Bond. Craig will reprise his role as detective Benoit Blanc in the sequels, with the first set to begin shooting this summer. Variety reported on Wednesday that Netflix has spent a whopping $450 million to secure the rights to Knives Out 2 and Knives Out 3, sequels to 2019’s murder-mystery sleeper hit, Knives Out. Against all odds, Daniel Craig has found himself at the center of another hundred-million-dollar film franchise.

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