The follow-up to 2019’s smash hit “Knives Out” will have its world premiere at TIFF in September. On Wednesday, the festival announced director Rian Johnson’s sequel will screen as part of the festival.
The star-studded film is the first title to be announced as part of TIFF’s 2022 selection, however, the festival did not indicate where in the festival line-up it’ll debut.
Earlier in June, “Knives Out” fans received a new hint about the highly anticipated sequel, as Johnson revealed the official title for the follow-up to his acclaimed murder mystery. “Benoit Blanc’s next case, the follow up to ‘Knives Out’, is called ‘GLASS ONION’,” Johnson shared, along with an animated title card that announced him as the film’s writer and director, but replaced the “I” in his first name with a sharp-edged magnifying glass — no doubt a hint about the mystery to come.
Netflix shared the first look at the anticipated sequel during its 2022 Movie Preview earlier this year, which showed Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc boarding a boat in the Mediterranean, along with some of “Knives Out 2″‘s new A-list cast members, like Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr.
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