WAKE UP DEAD MAN: more Benoit Blanc Benoit Blancing via Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig, due 2025

As noted here:

https://x.com/rianjohnson/status/1794005920898502741

After all these years, it’s the first time U2’s Pop has had any influence on the culture at large…

Radiohead, Beatles, U2

i cannot believe anyone watched glass onion and wanted more of this

it won't surprise you to learn that U2 bit that title from an old blues song

i cannot believe anyone watched glass onion and wanted more of this

The first film was fun. The actors and director had fun making it. Audiences had fun watching it. It grossed beaucoup bucks. The makers concluded from this that a sequel would earn beaucoup bucks and all they had to do was repeat the formula, have fun and entertain themselves.

They forgot the part about audiences having fun. The sequel grossed beaucoup bucks anyway. The makers drew one important conclusion from this. Maybe they'll be proved right.

The sequel grossed beaucoup bucks anyway.

citation needed

i think Netflix said it did well for them

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/64RTtSZP6SA/hqdefault.jpg

yeah 2nd one only made 15 million at the box office but it was barely in theaters. It seemed to be popular on netflix despite no-one I personally know liking it

Yeah the theatrical run was I think over a Thanksgiving weekend and only in select theaters, typical Netflix stuff. Seemed like a self-own to me on that front.

I didn't really like either one but I thought Glass Onion was more fun. The wrestler in a banana hammock was funnier than anything in Knives Out.

Okay various cast members have been announced over the past week:

Cailee Spaeny
Josh O'Connor
Andrew Scott
Jeremy Renner
Mila Kunis
Glenn Close
Kerry Washington
Daryl McCormack

Plus rumor mill says Tom Hardy and Lindsay Lohan, which would be a combo.

And we got first teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqU2276eaQ

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This series has no fear of being corny af. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Been catching up on Poker Face and thinking about how Gen X Rian Johnson's reference points are — this real love of '70s pop entertainment, the murder mysteries and detective shows.