The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has put together an insanely good cast for his Knives Out, a “murder mystery in a mansion film” that Lionsgate will be releasing in November. But there’s one more big name that wasn’t originally announced, confirmed by Indiewire this week: Frank Oz, the legendary actor/director/”Sesame Street” puppeteer/voice of Yoda!
“[Rian] asked me to act in it and I said, ‘Are you out of your friggin’ mind?’ But he wanted me in there,” Oz told the site. “The reason I do those, and I believe every director should do this, is I need to know how frightening it is in front of a camera. And if I screw up, I can learn how to help when I direct an actor. Every director should get in front of the camera and see how frightening it is and how much the actors need you.”
I have nothing to add to this except maybe a little happy dance https://t.co/8N1oV0E80w
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 12, 2019
The cast also includes Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, Ana De Armas, Jaeden Lieberher, Riki Lindhome, Edi Patteron and Raúl Castillo.
Knives Out will be a “contemporary version of the locked door mansion murder mystery.”
Johnson wrote the script and directs.
Knives Out has been set for nationwide release on November 27, 2019.