Everything We Know About ‘Knives Out 4’: Release Date and Plot Hints

The Knives Out trilogy has become a modern murder-mystery favorite, and creator Rian Johnson has said he’d love to keep the series going for as long as he can. Now that the third installment, Wake Up Dead Man, starring Daniel Craig, hit Netflix on December 12, fans are already asking: when will Knives Out 4 arrive?

While Johnson doesn’t have a firm plan yet, he shared some early thoughts with Entertainment Weekly. “I have some basic, elemental, conceptual ideas. Like, ‘OK, it’d be interesting if it were this kind of thing’ kernels,” he said in a December 2025 interview.

The Looper director added, “I don’t have actual concrete ideas. I don’t have a theme yet, I don’t have a location. It’s really pretty vague, and I feel like it’s good to kinda keep it vague until I’m ready to actually sit down and write it.”

Each Knives Out film has its own unique vibe. From the 2019 Ana de Armas-led debut to the 2022 Glass Onion, Johnson has played with comedic and cinematic tones — the former leaning into cla...