Rian Johnson has no desire to kill off his hit crime caper franchise “Knives Out,” despite his lucrative two-picture contract with Netflix having come to an end.

Off the back of the success of the first “Knives Out,” the streamer in 2021 paid a reported $450 million for the rights to two sequels, a deal now complete with third installment “Wake Up Dead Man.”

But Johnson would love to keep going with the murder-solving escapades of his drawling detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig.

“I don’t feel burnt out doing these at all. If anything I feel energized after doing this one,” he said during a talk at the BFI London Film Festival on Thursday. “So as long as audiences want to keep seeing it, and Daniel and I are still having fun making them and still feel like we can come up w

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