Chris Evans has officially wrapped all his filming on the fourth “Avengers” film and posted a message to fans and colleagues which seems to reinforce the talk that this will be his final outing as Steve Rogers/Captain America.
Deadline adds that Evans is already moving on and has signed on to co-star in Rian Johnson’s upcoming film “Knives Out” alongside Daniel Craig. That project is a modern-day whodunnit murder mystery with an Agatha Christie style.
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Ana de Armas (“Blade Runner 2049”) will be join Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon and Lakeith Stanfield in Rian Johnson’s modern-day whodunit murder mystery “Knives Out” which will begin filming next month. Johnson will make “Knives Out” before he directs a new trilogy in the “Star Wars” universe and before Craig gets to work on his final James Bond film. Shooting begins in November.
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Riki Lindhome (“Another Period”), Edi Patteron (“Troupe Zero”) and Raul Castillo (“Seven Seconds”) are the latest to join Rian Johnson’s whodunnit film “Knives Out” which also stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Lakeith Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Ana de Armas, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Don Johnson and Jaeden Lieberher. Filming is underway in Boston.
The project is dubbed a modern day murder mystery in the classic whodunit style, with Craig’s detective character is called Benoit Blanc. Johnson has scripted and will direct.
Lionsgate has bought distribution rights to the Daniel Craig-led murder mystery “Knives Out” from filmmaker Rian Johnson. They have set a Thanksgiving release date of November 27th.
“Brick” and “Looper” director Rian Johnson has found himself suffering at the hands of fanboys for much of the past year in the wake of the release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” so it’s welcome to see him return to something quite different with a new project he’s both penning and directing that serves as a love letter to Agatha Christie’s works. The film is dubbed a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery with Daniel Craig as the Poirot-esque Detective Benoit Blanc along with Lakeith Stanfield as his offsider. The casting is exquisite – Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Don Johnson, and youngsters like “IT” star Jaeden Lieberher and “13 Reasons Why” actress Katherine Langford all playing either suspects or victims. Lionsgate has the film and are planning an early Fall release.