Director Rian Johnson was interviewed by IndieWire recently for the release of the third installment of his Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man. In it, he's asked whom he would like to secure if he were to make another. He shared, "There are so many great actors I’d like to work with. But, yes, if you’re reading this, Meryl Streep, I feel like you’d slot into a murder mystery very well."
The film series has been critically and commercially very successful. I've enjoyed both of the first two installments, the second being 2022's Glass Onion. I'm generally not a big fan of slotting Meryl into a franchise-like series of films, the way she was mentioned by a producer in recent years for a potential Marvel movie. I imagine the script would have to appeal to her, and/or an interesting character would have to be involved. It would not be a lead role, as that is firmly slotted for Daniel Craig in this series.
Johnson mentioned that he's working on something completely separate from the Knives Out movies, which he described as "...a paranoid thriller. A ‘70s paranoid thriller, sort of. With a sci-fi twinge." I had thought at first that maybe he was interested in casting Meryl in this original story, but when he described Meryl as "slotting into a murder mystery very well," it seemed clear he thought about her for a Knives Out film, were another were to be made. That's not super interesting to me, but it would probably be a great box-office hit.
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It seems she would keep the artistic vs commercial fare. Just announced she is part of Pixar Hoppers
ReplyDeleteThey aren’t making it up she’s the insect queen in Hoppers, there’s a bit of her in the trailer they dropped the other day
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ReplyDeleteHa nope I haven't been away just honestly don't really care about the voice work in Hoppers. Good for her and for the movie. A better blogger would've probably included a post of it.
DeleteStreep slate for 2026:
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DWP2 may
Useful Idiots autumn?
She also participate in Kerns Burn last doc American History and is voicing several characters in Thoreau doc.
The woman is back.
American Revolution
DeleteI would include Narnia for Fall 2026
ReplyDeleteThen for 2027 hopefully the Joni Mitchell film, The Corrections TV Series and I am hoping that Scorsese reaches out to Streep about his latest Night film with Leo and Jennifer Lawrence
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DeleteI was going to ask why you brought up the Scorsese film (What Happens at Night) with Leo and JLaw. I've longed wanted a Streep-Scorsese collaboration of course. Not sure if you knew of a character already that would be appropriate but I decided to research the novel a bit and yes, there is a supporting (although sounds substantial) character who's described as being in her 70s and a "flamboyant, ancient chanteuse." Her name is Livia Pinheiro-Rima.
DeleteThis actually seems like a scenario of sort of "if not now, when?" as fare is pertains to a Scrosese collab. It's rumored to start filming early 2026 though, so 'if' Streep were considered, would it conflict with Useful Idiots? The filming for the former is likely to take place in Europe?
Although I'll add that with that name, not sure if they'll cast a white/non-Latina actress.
Delete...and with just a little more research it sounds like that role may be compressed/changed. There are a handful of supporting roles, however, so who knows. Although I don't want Meryl to just to 'anything' with Scorsese. Would like it to be noteworthy.
DeleteI only saw that the character was a local woman and setting was Northern European county like Finland or Russia?
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