In a new interview, the “Knives Out” director rianjohnson chats with IChotiner about casting Daniel Craig, meeting Steven Spielberg, and writing murder mysteries.
The thing that got me going on wanting to make “Knives Out” was setting it in modern-day America and not being afraid to set it in modern-day America and to engage with the culture of today. Christie did the exact same thing. Her books weren’t period pieces; they were very much engaged with what was going on at the time. And, in a way, it’s a very traditional, conservative form of storytelling, where chaos is created by a crime and the paternal detective sets everything right by the end of it.
What do you think that people who don’t like McKee or his methods are critical of, and why do you think that they’re wrong? My sense of Daniel Craig from interviews is that he is interested in playing with that image in some way. Vince Gilligan apparently saw “Brick” and just got in touch with my agents. I think they had just done their first season. I wasn’t familiar with the show. Luckily, we got back in touch in their third season, when they still hadn’t completely broken out yet. And I remember being on set at the time and there was a real feeling of a little-brother-type thing with “Mad Men.” And I remember just saying, “Yeah, yeah, this, it’s going to break out.
I love pain and suffering. You know, you hate it but you love it. And also just to have—at least for however long I’ll have it—the opportunity to get my own stuff made is a real privilege. I feel like I should make hay while the sun shines. And it’s funny, though, you’re asking how is the experience different? It is different, but it’s also weirdly the same, because there’s a strange thing that happens.
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