Knives Out

Knives Out is a 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Daniel Craig leads an eleven-actor ensemble cast as Benoit Blanc, famed private detective summoned to investigate the death of bestselling author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer). Although police rule Harlan's case a suicide, Blanc suspects foul play and examines a host of clues and deceptive red herrings to ascertain his true manner of death. Johnson produced Knives Out with longtime collaborator Ram Bergman. Lionsgate managed the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through MRC and a multimillion-dollar tax subsidy from the Massachusetts state government.
Johnson conceived Knives Out in the mid-2000s. Seeking to modernize the whodunit films of the mid-twentieth century, the director was inspired by his interest in big-screen movie adaptations of Agatha Christie's stories. Johnson then shifted his attention to creation of his 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi, halting further progress on Knives Out. Development resumed the following year when Johnson wrote the screenplay in six or seven months. He devised a framework of tonal shifts to escalate tension between the characters, and informed elements of the story with his experience coping with intense culture war backlash to The Last Jedi. Principal photography began in October 2018 on a $40 million budget and wrapped that December. Shooting took place on location in suburban Boston. Nathan Johnson composed the film's classical score, which drew on an eclectic array of his and Rian's favorite symphonic movie scores. Knives Out has been read as work that investigates class warfare, wealth inequality, immigration, and race in contemporary American society.
Knives Out premiered at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and was distributed to American theaters on November 27 to major critical and commercial success. It was chosen as one of the year's top films by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, and finished the theatrical run grossing $312.9 million at the global box office. Critics distinguished the film's plot and actors for praise, though some aspects of the writing and performance drew criticism. It was nominated for multiple awards, among them three Golden Globes, a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA), and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Knives Out is the first entry of what became a franchise that includes two more films—Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025).
== Plot ==
The family of Harlan Thrombey, a wealthy mystery novelist, attends his 85th birthday party at his Massachusetts mansion. The next morning, Harlan's housekeeper, Fran, discovers him dead with a slit throat. Police detectives Lieutenant Elliot and Trooper Wagner believe Harlan committed suicide, but private detective Benoit Blanc is anonymously hired to investigate. Blanc learns that Harlan had strained relationships with his family members, giving several of them possible motives for murder.
Unknown to Blanc, Harlan's nurse, Marta Cabrera, believes she injected Harlan with a lethal dose of morphine after mixing up his medications the night after the party. Harlan instructed her to create a false alibi and then slit his own throat. Marta cannot lie without vomiting, so she gives accurate but incomplete answers when questioned. She agrees to assist Blanc's investigation and conceals evidence incriminating her. At the reading of Harlan's will, Marta is bequeathed his entire fortune; the Thrombeys are shocked by this. Harlan's grandson Ransom helps Marta escape the family, but coerces her into confessing to him. He offers help in exchange for a portion of Marta's inheritance. Meanwhile, the other Thrombeys try to persuade or threaten Marta into renouncing the inheritance, to no avail.
Marta receives a blackmail note containing a partial photocopy of Harlan's toxicology report. She and Ransom drive to the medical examiner's office to find it burned down. Marta receives an email proposing a rendezvous with the blackmailer. Blanc and the police spot them, and after a brief car chase, Ransom is arrested. At the rendezvous, Marta finds Fran drugged. She performs CPR and calls an ambulance. She confesses to Blanc but discovers that she has already been implicated by Ransom. Out of moral obligation, Marta believes she must confess to the Thrombeys, which would invalidate the bequest under the slayer rule.
Back at the mansion, Marta finds Fran's copy of the full toxicology report, which shows Harlan had only trace amounts of morphine in his blood. Blanc reveals his deductions to the police, Marta, and Ransom: that Harlan had told Ransom about his will, and that Ransom had then swapped Harlan's medicines to ensure that Marta would accidentally kill him and thus be ineligible to claim the inheritance. However, Marta actually gave Harlan the correct medication, recognizing it without reading the label due to her experience as a nurse; she only believed she had poisoned Harlan after reading the label. When the death was reported as a suicide, Ransom anonymously hired Blanc to expose Marta. Fran saw Ransom tampering with the crime scene and sent him the blackmail note. After Ransom realized Marta was not responsible for Harlan's death, but Marta still thought she was, he forwarded the blackmail letter to Marta and burned down the medical examiner's office to destroy evidence of her innocence. He then overdosed Fran with morphine, intending for Marta to get caught with Fran's corpse.
The hospital calls; Marta relays that Fran survived and will implicate Ransom. He scoffs that since his attempt to kill Fran failed, his lawyers will help him escape arson and attempted murder charges. Marta then vomits on him, revealing that she lied: Fran is dead. Realizing he has confessed to the murder, and that the police officers recorded his confession, Ransom attacks Marta with a knife from Harlan's collection, which turns out to be a retractable stage knife. The police promptly arrest him.
Blanc tells Marta he suspected early on that she played a part in Harlan's death, noting a drop of blood on her shoe. He tells her that her innocence prevailed because she made ethical choices all along that obstructed Ransom's attempts to incriminate her. As Ransom is taken into custody, Marta watches from the balcony of what is now her mansion, with the Thrombeys gathered outside.
== Cast ==
== Themes ==
Knives Out has been read as work that investigates class warfare, wealth inequality, immigration, and race in contemporary American society. In interviews organized for the press junket, Bergman, Johnson, and some of the actors expressed candid views of themes common in the Knives Out story, allowing multiple interpretations of the film. Johnson stated the central story neither condemns nor subscribes to a single ideology; rather, it was designed to provoke all moviegoers to contemplate. Moreover, he saw whodunits as well-suited to scrutinize institutional power, a belief influenced by Christie's writings, work he considered indicative of a woman who, while not political, was attuned to British society throughout her life.
=== Class warfare===
Knives Out ranks with other turn-of-the-decade films—such as Ready or Not, Parasite, Hustlers, and Joker (all 2019)—in which class warfare is the unifying theme. The film makes literal class struggle by framing Harlan's death as an explicit tale of good versus evil, Marta emerging as the heroine because of her humanity. Whereas Marta is distraught from the moment Harlan dies, the surviving Thrombeys are fractured by greed, fueled by their stakes in Harlan's publishing fortune. They are ruthless and oblivious of Harlan's demise in a quest for wealth they feel entitled to control and seize by any means. In this sense, it is the Thrombeys, not the elusive suspect per se, who represent the true villains. Yet, in spite of the family's contempt for her and the working class, Marta resists their coercion thanks to her wit and moral convictions. Much emphasis is placed on the alternating points of view of Marta's ordeal to reinforce chasms between the classes. Fast Company Joe Berkowitz argues this device forms the film's class consciousness.
Professor Eugene Nulman posits a Marxist interpretation of Knives Out. Marta is analyzed as an analog for healthcare workers made vulnerable in the COVID-19 pandemic by the failures of neoliberalism, and Nulman contends that the film presents the Thrombey family dynamic as an allegory for capitalism, each relative embodying bourgeois archetypes: the rentier class in Linda, the investor class in Walt, the celebrity class in Joni, the trust fund elite in Ransom, the right-wing establishment in Jacob, and the liberal establishment in Meg. Harlan is the exception because his modest origins, class consciousness, and the family's exploitation of his labor define his circumstance. For this reason, in Nulman's interpretation, Harlan's deliberate suicide and transfer of wealth to Marta are subversive acts that, alongside the Thrombeys' vilification of Marta (mirroring the status quo's counterrevolutionary force), suggest credence to the idea that capitalist exploitation can only be addressed by revolution.
===Race===
Race was also examined in thematic studies of the film. Knives Out concentrates on a critique of white supremacy and liberal paternalism, comically depicting the Thrombey–Marta relationship through condescending affection and running gags about Marta's country of origin. In his essay for White Supremacy and the American Media, professor Michael Blouin contests the film's analysis of white nationalism. Blouin argues that Knives Out resigns to Jeffersonian democratic ideals—liberal universalism, pragmatic reasoning, and an a priori sense of justice—that buttress a set of racialized assumptions. In doing so, in Blouin's words, all expressed antagonism is neutralized, therefore "depoliticizing a crisis that has so far proven to be resistant to the ideal prescribed by many white liberals."
===Narrative structure===
In Knives Out, Johnson experiments with narrative structure to generate suspense. The film begins in a traditional whodunit format that is subverted by two tonal shifts. The first shift arranges the plot as a thriller by establishing Marta's reckoning with the manner of Harlan's death, her own implication, and quest to evade the investigation's purview as a cause of conflict, thus framing Blanc as the antagonist. It is in the second shift that, through plausible deniability, Marta's innocence is unequivocal. This posed a significant writing challenge as Johnson intended not only that Marta be a sympathetic character, but also be perceived as justified in her behavior. He was also keen to portray the extremes to which an innocent person might go when threatened with incarceration.
== Release ==
===Marketing===
Knives Out premiered at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, part of the fest's special presentations lineup. The film then headlined the 14th Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas as the closing title, before concluding its North American festival itinerary at the Chicago International Film Festival's Centerpiece showcase. In Europe, Knives Out debuted at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival as one of the event's gala entries, held October 2–13, 2019.
Lionsgate supervised the film's advertising campaign. They commenced the promotional cycle in April 2019 with a showcasing preview at CinemaCon, where the first teaser trailer of the film was revealed, followed by another trade show exhibit at CineEurope that June. One critical aspect of the marketing campaign was aggressive social media engagement. Early tactics focused on feel-good messaging, the film's campy humor and Thrombey family enterprises—the lattermost featuring Shannon, Collette, and Curtis in character—through video parodies and mock advertisements developed using website building platforms. The campaign resumed in the weeks following Knives Out late November release, when Ransom's off-white knitted Aran sweater went viral, prompting a brief renaming of the film's official Twitter account to "Chris Evans' Sweater Stan Account" as well as a merchandise giveaway to maximize publicity. Ads reportedly intrigued mostly men but showed strong appeal with women of all ages. For licensed artwork, Johnson unveiled a set of colorful, brooding character posters in September 2019, each with the tagline, "Nothing brings a family together like murder." The director additionally recorded interactive audio commentary to entice repeated business.
Knives Out opened to theaters in North America and the United Kingdom on November 27, 2019. The film's global rollout expanded to China, France, Australia, Russia, and 49 other overseas territories the second week. Its final market was Japan, released on January 31, 2020. Knives Out was seen by industry professionals as a potential hit based on interest sustained from enthusiastic pre-release reviews, the film's unique self-referentiality, and the ensemble's star power, especially Evans, Craig, and Curtis. The success of the film was considered contingent on its ability to attract a broad audience rather than a niche demographic of adults.
===Home media===
Lionsgate released Knives Out on digital formats on February 7, 2020, and on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K on February 25. Physical copies include deleted scenes; a behind-the-scenes featurette; audio commentary from Johnson, Yedlin, and Noah Segan; an eight-part documentary; advertisements; and previously unaired press interviews. It was the second-best selling DVD and Blu-ray release in its first week of US sales, selling 248,286 copies and earning $4.6 million. By January 2023, the film had sold 1.47 million copies. Knives Out is also available to authenticated Amazon subscribers via the company's Prime Video streaming service.
== Reception ==
===Box office===
Knives Out endured at the box office as a film targeting adults, in a theatrical season saturated with family blockbusters such as Frozen II. It earned $165.4 million in the United States and Canada (52.8% of its earnings) and $147.5 million overseas (47.2%), for a worldwide total of $312.9 million, making it the 29th-highest-grossing film of 2019. Of this figure, $82million was estimated to have been yielded by the MRC–Lionsgate partnership in net profit, factoring in marketing, equipment, royalties, interest, and miscellaneous costs. China was the most lucrative overseas market, and positive press buoyed the film's performance in that country. The United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and France represented some of the film's largest takings.
In the United States, after securing $2 million from advanced screenings, Knives Out received a wide release across 3,391 theaters. The film benefitted from a five-day tracking period thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday Thursday. This enhanced the first week sum to $41.7 million, ahead of the three-week old Ford v Ferrari and second to Frozen II, which was in its second weekend. Knives Out opening gross nearly doubled the prognosticators' pre-release estimates of $22–25 million. CinemaScore polls conducted during opening night revealed the average grade moviegoers gave the film was A− on an A+ to F scale. Screenings attracted mostly men, and approximately 73% were over 25 years of age, 46% over 35, and 63% white. The second weekend saw Knives Out take another $14.2 million from 3,461 theaters, remaining the number two film, and earnings dropped by about 35% the following week. In the fourth weekend, the film slipped to the number five position with a gross of $6.5 million, its theater count narrowing to slightly above 2,500, though box office figures improved by 50% for the Christmas holiday week (seventh, with $9.7 million). Knives Out remained one of the top ten highest-grossing films for ten weeks, and the theater count stayed above 2,000 at the end of the year. By February 2020, the film's domestic gross topped $159 million.
Overseas, Knives Out overall November 27 week rank was second to Frozen II at $28.3 million. China comprised the largest portion of the earnings with $13.5 million, followed by the United Kingdom ($3.8 million from 632 theaters), Russia ($2 million from 1,451 theaters), Australia ($1.9 million from 282 theaters), and France (third, with $1.5 million from 437 theaters). Knives Out sustained the box office momentum in China and the UK into the second weekend, resulting in a 20% drop in revenue in the latter. After four weeks it had earned $27.9 million in China and $13.7 million in Britain. The film's overseas expansion continued into mid-December, marked by key releases in South Korea (fourth, $1.7 million from 686 cinemas), Italy (third, $1.2 million from 362 cinemas), and Mexico (second, $1.1 million from 871 cinemas). Christmas period saw reinvigorated ticket sales in France, Australia, and Britain, and in Russia, the New Year holiday bolstered the film's box office by 152% over the prior week. Knives Out debuted as the top-grossing movie in Brazil when it premiered the weekend of December 12, earning $1.1 million. On its inaugural weekend elsewhere, the film took $2.7 million in Germany and $665,000 in Austria. Within a month, Knives Out international gross exceeded $100 million.
===Critical response===
Knives Out opened to widely positive reviews, and, by the end of 2019, was considered one of the year's best films by the American Film Institute, National Board of Review, and the mainstream press in ranked lists. A routinely discussed aspect in the media was the scriptwriting. Knives Out received notice for its unusual plot structure, with reviewers saying the film defied expectations by employing numerous narrative twists and satire of murder mystery tropes. Film critics had high regard for director Rian's comic treatment of a traditional detective story; it was described as "enjoyably, wackily serpentine", with sardonic humor noted for its "sheen of smugness" by The New Yorker. Although comparisons to source material based on tenor, humor, craftmanship, and faithfulness varied among professional opinions, the story's play on perspective among the characters produced favorable responses. According to Stephanie Zacharek for Time, the squabbling between characters who were avaricious, untrustworthy, and ostensibly driven by the same interest, provided the film's most entertaining moments. The writing's political consciousness was cited among the strengths of Knives Out, although the handling of ideas received occasional disapproval from others, such as The New York Times Manohla Dargis and Uproxx, for being perceived as too vapid to resonate. The least enthusiastic reviews accused the film of being convoluted, self-indulgent, and too reliant on exposition-dense dialogue to advance the story. In December 2021, Knives Out screenplay was listed number forty-nine on the Writers Guild of America's "101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (So Far)".
The actors' performances was another major subject in the critiques. The Knives Out ensemble was warmly received, their work praised as "outstanding" and "wildly charismatic", with rapport Vanity Fair ascribed to a shared conviction to the material. Media were somewhat inclined to focus on Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas, but also gave individual notices to Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Christopher Plummer, and Noah Segan for their acting. In particular, critics delighted in Craig's portrayal of an eccentric sleuth in expression and appearance, the actor noted for emanating an "infectious enjoyment" onscreen. De Armas, whose portrayal was described as "superb" and "wonderful", drew similarly strong assessments of her character work from the likes of San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle and The Atlantic, among others, in what was considered a breakout performance. Though the two actors were singled out for further praise because of their onscreen chemistry in conversational scenes, neither they nor their costars were free of criticism. Dissenting opinions judged Craig's Southern accent harshly, and Uproxx believed de Armas, as a lesser skilled actor, was at odds with the dramatic depth of her role. A few actors were regarded as underused because of the ensemble's large size, which Uproxx argued reduced their interactions to a "constant, white noise-esque drone of overacting".
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Knives Out holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics' consensus reads: "Knives Out sharpens old murder-mystery tropes with a keenly assembled suspense outing that makes brilliant use of writer-director Rian Johnson's stellar ensemble." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 82 out of 100, based on reviews from 52 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
===Accolades===
Award 	Date of ceremony 	Category 	Recipient(s) 	Result	
AACTA International Awards 	January 3, 2020 	Best International Supporting Actress 	Toni Collette 	 	
Academy Awards 	February 9, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Actors and Actresses Union Awards 	March 9, 2020 	Best Actress in an International Production 	Ana de Armas 	 	
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards 	January 10, 2020 	Best Screenplay, Original 	Rian Johnson 	 	
American Cinema Editors Awards 	January 17, 2020 	Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical 	Bob Ducsay 	 	
American Film Institute Awards 	January 3, 2020 	Top Ten Films of the Year 	Knives Out 	 	
Art Directors Guild Awards 	February 1, 2020 	Best Contemporary Film 	David Crank 	 	
Artios Awards 	January 30, 2020 	Feature Big Budget – Comedy 	Mary Vernieu, Angela Peri, and Brett Howe	 	
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 	January 7, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 	January 7, 2020 	Best Ensemble 	Knives Out 	 	
British Academy Film Awards 	February 2, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 	December 14, 2019 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 	December 14, 2019 	Best Art Direction 	Knives Out 	 	
Costume Designers Guild Awards 	January 28, 2020 	Excellence in Contemporary Film 	Jenny Eagan 	 	
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	January 12, 2020 	Best Acting Ensemble 	Knives Out 	 	
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	January 12, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 	January 12, 2020 	Best Comedy 	Knives Out 	 	
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards 	December 9, 2019 	Best Breakthrough Performance 	Ana de Armas 	 	
Dorian Awards 	January 8, 2020 	Screenplay of the Year 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Dorian Awards 	January 8, 2020 	Campy Film of the Year 	Knives Out 	 	
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards 	January 10, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Golden Globe Awards 	January 5, 2020 	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy 	Knives Out 	 	
Golden Globe Awards 	January 5, 2020 	Best Actor – Musical or Comedy 	Daniel Craig 	 	
Golden Globe Awards 	January 5, 2020 	Best Actress – Musical or Comedy 	Ana de Armas 	 	
Golden Trailer Awards 	July 22, 2021 	Most Original TV Spot (for a Feature Film) 	"Knives Out Knives" (Viacom Velocity) 	 	
Golden Trailer Awards 	July 22, 2021 	Best Viral Campaign for a Feature Film 	"Knives Out Knives" (Viacom Velocity) 	 	
Golden Trailer Awards 	July 22, 2021 	Best Viral Campaign for a Feature Film 	"Sweater" (ZEALOT) 	 	
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 	January 9, 2020 	Best Cast 	Knives Out 	 	
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 	January 9, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Houston Film Critics Society Awards 	January 2, 2020 	Best Picture 	Knives Out 	 	
Houston Film Critics Society Awards 	January 2, 2020 	Best Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Imagen Awards 	September 24, 2020	Best Actress – Feature Film 	Ana de Armas 	 	
London Film Critics' Circle Awards 	January 30, 2020 	Film of the Year 	Knives Out 	 	
National Board of Review Awards 	January 8, 2020 	Top Ten Films 	Knives Out 	 	
National Board of Review Awards 	January 8, 2020 	Best Ensemble 	Knives Out 	 	
New York Film Critics Online Awards 	December 7, 2019 	Best Ensemble Cast 	Mary Vernieu 	 	
Online Film Critics Society Awards 	January 6, 2020 	Best Picture 	Knives Out 	 	
Online Film Critics Society Awards 	January 6, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Online Film Critics Society Awards 	January 6, 2020 	Best Acting Ensemble 	Knives Out 	 	
Producers Guild of America Awards 	January 18, 2020 	Best Theatrical Motion Picture 	Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman 	 	
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 	December 16, 2019 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Satellite Awards 	December 19, 2019 	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy 	Knives Out 	 	
Satellite Awards 	December 19, 2019 	Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 	Daniel Craig 	 	
Satellite Awards 	December 19, 2019 	Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy	Ana de Armas 	 	
Satellite Awards 	December 19, 2019 	Best Cast – Motion Picture 	Knives Out 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Thriller Film 	Knives Out 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Actor 	Daniel Craig 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Supporting Actor 	Chris Evans 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Supporting Actress 	Ana de Armas 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Supporting Actress 	Jamie Lee Curtis 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Editing 	Bob Ducsay 	 	
Saturn Awards 	October 26, 2021 	Best Music 	Nathan Johnson 	 	
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 	December 16, 2019 	Best Ensemble Cast 	Knives Out 	 	
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 	December 16, 2019 	Best Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 	December 15, 2019 	Best Comedy 	Knives Out 	 	
Writers Guild of America Awards 	February 1, 2020 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards	December 8, 2019 	Best Original Screenplay 	Rian Johnson 	 	
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards	December 8, 2019 	Best Ensemble 	Knives Out 	 	
== Sequels ==
Johnson was germinating ideas for a Knives Out sequel while the original film was still in theaters in 2019. Lionsgate announced plans to develop the sequel in February 2020, but in March 2021, Netflix actually acquired the rights for two sequels for $469 million. Although the terms of Lionsgate's distribution agreement gave the company bargaining leverage, Johnson and Bergman owned the film's intellectual property and pursued a new distribution deal in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which severely hampered the immediate profit making viability of theaters. Knives Out was followed by Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, released on Netflix on December 23, 2022 after a controversial one week platform theatrical rollout the previous November. In the film, Blanc journeys to tech magnate Miles Bron's (Edward Norton) murder mystery-themed retreat to mingle with his circle of friends, but the event goes awry when two partygoers die under suspicious circumstances. Glass Onion fared well in reviews by the media.
A third film has been in development since 2023. That October, Johnson talked about it in TheWrap: "I obviously couldn't work during the Writers Guild of America strike, and now that it's over, I'm diving in full force, and so it's coming along. I've got the premise, I've got the setting, I've got what the movie is in my head. It's just a matter of writing the damn thing". The film, titled Wake Up Dead Man, is scheduled for release in 2025.
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