Rian Johnson says 'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' is "incredibly different" from 'Glass Onion'

"If I feel like I’m repeating the same thing, or turning the crank on the handle and turning out more of what I did last time, I’m not good enough to hide that from the audience," he continued to share. "So what I end up chasing is the experience of each of these things. It’s not necessarily where I’m going to flip and do a totally different tone, but after three years of working on something that has a particular tone, it’s like you’ve been eating the same thing for lunch every day for three years. I’m more excited about doing something that feels new."

So will he continue to make more mysteries for the Knives Out franchise? "I have genuinely taken a swing each time that I didn’t think would work," Johnson commented. "Ultimately, that’s the thing you’re trying to avoid. The second you feel like you know how to do this, that leads nowhere good. So I feel fantastic. And with the movies, we can keep doing that. I don’t have something in my head right now. You kind of burn the ship into the sea each time and ask yourself, 'How will I make anything ever again?' But I would keep doing them as long as I can." 

Prepare yourselves for Blanc's "most dangerous case yet," coming to Netflix on December 12.