Fictional Fans

Oooh, hi, fellow Knives Out fan!

I could cosign your entire comment--- I keep trying to pull out one piece to respond to, but mostly I just keep nodding along, like, yes, this.

I'm particularly unenthused about the idea of another detective mystery story starring Benoit Blanc, because I think a lot of the things that make Knives Out work so well as a mystery story are specific to the story of Marta and the Thrombeys....

COSIGNED! I can't hack Blanc's accent, as I ranted previously, so it occurs to me that instead of having him somewhere that he's not supposed to be from (Johnson said he wanted Blanc, like Poirot, to have an accent that didn't fit with the other characters') throw him into a rich family in the Deep South, who will recognize that something's off about him and maybe give us a nugget of his background, like they did in this one when Blanc mentions that Harlan had known his father.

Hmmm... if Johnson wants to go full Agatha Christie, he could make Marta is new Miss Marple and have her get caught up on her own in solving a crime. ("Marta and Blanc continue to team up to solve his cases" is a fairly common fanfic trope even in Marta/Ransom fics, I've found.)

But obviously "the sequel is a completely different genre" is not something studios tend to go for.

Yeah, the only one I can think of that did that was Chronicles of Riddick and that... did not go well. Though there might be a way to weave another murder mystery into the courtroom-drama process--- someone trying to kill one of the Cabreras or the Thrombeys, or one of them being suspected of murder.