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
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