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New 'Knives Out' Spotlights Trump-Era US Political Landscape
Rian Johnson's film uses a church setting to explore cultural and political clashes influenced by Trump-era tensions, featuring a murder mystery with a cast led by Daniel Craig.
- On Wednesday, `Wake Up Dead Man` opened the London Film Festival after premiering in Toronto last month, with Rian Johnson saying it was `unapologetically set and tuned into this moment` in the US.
- Rian Johnson said he set the story in a small-town upstate New York church after seeing his former evangelical faith collide with politics under Donald Trump, using the `PINO` label to riff on the president's slur.
- Detective Benoit Blanc grapples with a seemingly impossible death while Josh Brolin, actor , and Josh O'Connor, actor , reveal tensions in a devoted, dysfunctional congregation.
- This follow-up will hit some cinemas in November before streaming globally from December 12; Netflix paid $400 million for two sequels, while Rian Johnson says he may do something else after three films.
- Blending Gothic influences, Rian Johnson, writer and director, said `Faith and human sin and guilt, it clicks together like two gears with a murder mystery form`, probing truth, belief and contemporary political polarization.
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New 'Knives Out' spotlights Trump-era US political landscape
The latest "Knives Out" movie may be another whodunit but the expanding franchise's creator insists he also wanted to confront the current US political climate with the star-studded film.
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