Rian Johnson’s a busy man, with his next Knives Out movie imminent, a wild Poker Face plan , and his return to sci-fi on the cards after that (although not a particular galaxy far, far away yet). And yet, the director has spent much of the last week defending himself from a wave of impromptu disappointment when he made it clear that the oddly specific fandom request of having Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc team up with a cast of murder-solving muppets was not going to be on the cards.

The felted furor emerged earlier this week when Johnson jokingly called himself a hypocrite on social media for being excited about a fan-made poster casting Miss Piggy in the hit Broadway play Oh Mary! after “giving a hard no to Muppet Knives Out .”

Lots of shocked and disappointed interne

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