Johnson said there was "never any outline or treatment or anything" for the remainder of the films, though he did note that the ideas he had were "all very conceptual" without further elaboration. Lucasfilm first announced the planned trilogy in November 2017, a month before The Last Jedi 's theatrical release.

The next movie in the Knives Out series, Wake Up Dead Man, is "much more Gothic and grounded in tone". The whodunnit franchise's creator, Rian Johnson, has revealed the third film will revert "back to the origins of the genre" and is more like that first movie,

Writer-director Rian Johnson talks about the 'Poker Face' Season 2 ending, working with Natasha Lyonne, his next 'Knives Out' movie, and Star Wars.