Following the announcement of Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, new data has come to mild in regards to the actors who might seem in it. What’s On Netflix reported, and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed, that Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny will be a part of Daniel Craig within the film. Author-director Rian Johnson re-shared the information on social media, seemingly confirming the casting.
The film’s official social media account jumped in to react to all of the dialogue about casting for Wake Up Useless Man. “OK everyone simply relax,” the account wrote.
OK everyone simply relax
— Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller (@KnivesOut) Might 28, 2024
O’Connor performed Prince Charles on Netflix’s The Crown and lately appeared within the tennis film Challengers from director Luca Guadagnino. As for Spaeny, she lately starred because the title character within the Sofia Coppola film Priscilla. She additionally performed a lead character in Alex Garland’s Civil Warfare and is ready to look within the subsequent Alien movie, Alien: Romulus.
Little or no is understood about Wake Up Useless Man, however will probably be one other whodunnit homicide thriller from Johnson, and it is being made for Netflix. The Knives Out movies are identified for his or her ensemble casts, so O’Connor and Spaeny are simply two members of the forged we learn about up to now. Craig performs the detective Benoit Blanc, and he is the one main character that returns in every new entry, as he is referred to as again to resolve yet one more high-stakes homicide thriller.
2019’s Knives Out starred Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. The 2021 sequel, Glass Onion, featured Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick, and Leslie Odom Jr.
Knives Out was launched theatrically, however Netflix swooped in and paid Johnson and Craig a reported $100 million every to place the Knives Out sequels on the streaming platform. Netflix is claimed to have paid round $470 million for the sequels, which is greater than the estimated market worth. A report stated Netflix deliberately overpaid for the sequels to take marketshare away from theaters.
Wake Up Useless Man involves Netflix in 2025.
