Our Biggest, Most Ridiculous Picks to Join the ‘Knives Out 3’ Cast

It must be so humiliating to be an actor in Hollywood who hasn’t been cast in a Knives Out movie yet.

As casting news for the upcoming third film in the trilogy, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, comes out this week at a dizzying clip, one can imagine the phone lines at the big Hollywood agencies jammed with clients fuming over the fact that they haven’t yet gotten a call. With the ensemble filling out quickly ahead of a production that’s expected to begin shortly, writer-director Rian Johnson likely has dual status as the industry’s most valued figure and greatest villain. Actors are either setting up a prayer altar with his headshot all over it or sticking needles into a voodoo doll in his likeness, depending on how their bids to join the film are going.

We are, of course, exaggerating (mostly), but it has been a thrill to see the roster of actors announced for the film in the past week: Josh O’Connor! Cailee Spaeny! Kerry Washington! Andrew Scott! Freaking Glenn Close!!! And, it was reported Thursday, Jeremy Renner will join the cast, in his first film role since his traumatic snowplow accident.

Read more at The Daily Beast.