The 69th BFI London Film Festival opened this evening with a lively screening of Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man , at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

Johnson was present with most of his extensive A-list cast, including Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, and Andrew Scott.

The crowd inside the Southbank Centre was just as starry, with bundles of familiar faces rolling into the theater to catch Johnson’s murder mystery threequel.

High-profile attendees included billion-dollar Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig, who made a surprise appearance at the screening, where she sat alongside her Narnia actress, Emma Mackey. Stage vet Andrew Lloyd Webber snuck in just before the screening, as did Running Man filmmaker and frequent B

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