Dave Bautista joins cast of Netflix’s ‘Knives Out’ sequel

The plot’s neck thickens!

Dave Bautista, no stranger to sharp objects, is joining the cast of at least one of Netflix’s highly anticipated sequels to “Knives Out,” the star-studded, Oscar-nominated 2019 murder mystery and box office smash.

No details for Bautista’s new character are available, but the wrestler-turned-leading-man has already offered a number of strong performances across genres. Likely to be pitched somewhere between the self-seriousness of “Spectre,” his last time on a set with Daniel Craig, and his breakthrough as Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the next “Knives Out” will likely present Bautista with some of the most idiosyncratic material of his career yet.

Netflix announced in March that writer-director Rian Johnson and star Craig would reunite for two sequels featuring eccentric detective Benoit Blanc. Both Johnson and Craig are also producing the sequels as part of the $450 million deal. It is unknown if any other cast members from “Knives Out” will return for either of the sequels and plot details are being kept under wraps. The cast for both sequels is expected to be as sprawling as the first film. Production for the first untitled sequel is set to begin this summer in Greece.

Bautista is set to appear next in “Army of the Dead,” also for Netflix, and both “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” for Marvel Studios.

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