Here's another clue for you all - GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY -- dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, etc etc

Oh I don’t mind it being named after a Radiohead song. I feel like “knives out” is just a phrase people say anyway. As long as the third one isn’t “Yellow Submarine” or “Eleanor Rigby”

johnson is way too "hip" for a grateful dead reference. my first thought for the next one was a queen reference, but that's more of an edgar wright thing. wait, is rian johnson the american edgar wright?

next one will be called Larks Tongues in Aspic

Oh I don’t mind it being named after a Radiohead song. I feel like “knives out” is just a phrase people say anyway. As long as the third one isn’t “Yellow Submarine” or “Eleanor Rigby”

this, uh, unhinged individual seems to be some kind of schizoid man. in this, the 21st of centuries. how peculiah

After Johnson revealed that in KO Joni is named after Joni Mitchell, and her husband after Neil Young, Linda and Richard after Richard and Linda Thompson and Walt and Donna after Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, I feel the existence of a Peg in the new one must indicate a Steely Dan theme which I am too dim/not quite nerdy enough to have registered.

next film will be called Barrytown

I thought it was gonna be called Old Brown Shoe.

meanwhile, trailer for Johnson’s mystery-of-the-week series with Natasha Lyonne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2NzusLAqk

what???? i am all in!! the world wanted lyonne to play columbo and i guess netflix listened?!

lol, beat me to it

It’s on Peacock not Netflix, but yes! Johnson listened at least :)

lol yes

and a nice bit of symmetry that NBC was the original network for Columbo

Networks are people too, my friend

NBC is a song by Radiohead

It's kind of hilarious that universe fatigue is making people excited for non-serialized programming again.

Not that I dislike it myself but it's nice to watch something on occasion without having to recall its 700 tree branches

definitely wouldn't be able to beat Flirting With Disaster for use of "Truckin'" as a musical cue

my brain scrambled this into a suggestion that the next film be named for Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster," which certainly presents possibilities for Blanc-isms. this case has me utterly befuddled, ah am fluhrtin' with disaster, y'all!

lyonne to play columbo

Poker Face
P__er Fa__
Peter Falk

this one did a far worse job of setting up characters as the potential criminal. hahn and odom jr. had about as much potential of being the guilty party as birdie's assistant and that weed bum wanderer. by the midpoint death scenes you're left with only two options. there was a moment during blanc's decoding of the crime where he said "it's so dumb" and that's about where i was with this movie.

I thought they were both pretty obvious from the moment they introduced the worst white guy possible. Zero chance anyone else would be the villain.

As mysteries both are pretty garbage.

had about as much potential

unless every single character in a movie is exactly equivalent wrt morality / depravity, the movie sucks and fails

I suspected the bum wanderer from the get-go

Crossing my fingers for an underrated aerosmith bootleg needle drop in the next one tbh

Funny you should say that...

https://fb.watch/hTEzN2LDMx/

In March of last year I was bugging Rian Johnson about stuff because I am a guy who if I have you in my phone and you're into some of the same things as me then you're likely to occasionally get texts that say, for example, RIAN HAVE YOU READ JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE HOLY CATS MAN GET AT ME. I was thinking of you, says Rian last March, you wanna help write some music for a TV show I'm doing? It's like Columbo. Kids of my generation have a Pavlovian pleasure response to any Columbo reference so I said yes of course I'm in. One thing led to another and then I wasn't just writing lyrics and melodies for the tunes in the episode (with big help on the musical side from Jamey Jasta) but also acting in it. I play a rock musician, because that's how rock musicians generally ease their way into total Hollywood domination. Inch/mile stuff. I made new friends on set and learned how TV shows get made, which is bonkers stuff, and complained a lot as I was learning the routine and then ended up having a really good time and you can watch all this starting January 26 on Peacock TV. #PokerFacePeacock

Hot damn!

Astounding!

The craziest thing about that is (I have read elsewhere) JD wrote some of the music with Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed. Didn't know floor-punching breakdowns were part of his musical vocabulary, honestly.

i’m watching right now and good lord daniel craig is not good in this

he's good at wearing little outfits

Jean Patrick Manchette is great!!

it’s all pretty fuckin cute isn’t it? like he wandered in from a wes anderson movie

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have you gotten to his bathing costume yet

indeed

If that’s not enough to delight you I can’t help you

his outfits are stupid i’m sorry. the character of “benoit blanc” is just kind of a gussied up nothing. it would have been nice to see someone do that role who isn’t needing to dedicate 40-60% of his mental powers to a pretty bad accent and the squinchy eyes that he thinks go with it

fun movie otherwise though

joe bang > benoit blanc

the character of “benoit blanc” is just kind of a gussied up nothing.

isn't that the joke

i was thinking that as i wrote it but if so to what end

The idea of the World's Greatest Detective is absurd, if you're going to have the WGD, Inspector Poirot in a crowd of contemporary American dirtbags, it would be strange if he wasn't as absurd as the concept.

This one was fine and the first one wasn't very good but they'd be completely unwatchable if the detective was played straight or given any kind of weight.

done better before, though

https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/murderbydeath1976.4720.jpg

Murder by death an extremely racist movie

Also not funny when it's not being racist, just a parade of jokes dropping to the floor with a clang.

it’s fine for the character to be a gussied up nothing, a cipher or stand-in, but craig fills in the “blanc space” with a kind of…constipated modesty? which i guess he thinks is charming or interesting but is neither by my lights.

Yeah as funny and racist as a drunk old uncle at a family dinner. Love Maggie Smith in it though

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“What is reality?!?” was really funny

Five minutes in, and this is already fairly insane.

This was fun, but yeah, I probably prefer the first one.

I think I'm like them both about the same, for slightly different reasons.

I appreciated how Miles’ friend “who was going through some things” was never revealed as some central part of this story. He was just a non-detail.