Rian Johnson on Why Daniel Craig Almost Wasn’t Benoit Blanc, Why He Will Never Be Recast, and the Actor He Wants Next

Mădălin Mihai

As his third "Knives Out" film arrives, the filmmaker tells IndieWire about his casting process, winking over big reveals, and why Craig is his Indiana Jones (not his James Bond). Back in 2019, I interviewed Rian Johnson at the Toronto International Film Festival the morning after the world premiere of the first “Knives Out.” This somehow seems both like not that long ago and impossibly ancient history, all at the same time. But it was a time in which Johnson was still regularly asked what his