If Netflix wants to make a billion dollars, all it needs to is convince writer-director Rian Johnson to make a Knives Out movie starring the Muppets, alongside Daniel Craig as flamboyant detective Benoit Blanc. There’s just one problem: Johnson doesn’t seem particularly interested.

"It's not a bad idea,” he recently told The Hollywood Reporter when asked about the internet’s favorite Knives Out fan-casting. “But I love and respect Muppet movies too much. The reality is, if you put Muppets in a Benoit Blanc movie, it would feel totally wrong, because they would be getting murdered. The alternative is to just stick Benoit Blanc into a Muppet movie, which admittedly would be very fun, but would kind of break the reality of what Blanc is."

Here’s the thing, though: Johnson is wrong about the Muppets. And having watched his latest Knives Out/Benoit Blanc installment, Wake Up Dead Man, I think he might also be wrong about his own movies. (And before you even mention it, yes I’ve seen........

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