Oscar Nominee Rian Johnson on ‘Knives Out’ Sequel and His Future With ‘Star Wars’

One item has a cameo appearance in several films in the awards race: doughnuts.In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's detective character goes on a tirade about a doughnut hole that is best described, as writer-director Rian Johnson says, as "a silly little speech that I almost cut from the script," but Craig convinced the helmer to keep it in."In murder mysteries, there's always a bit where the detective lays out some extended metaphor for the process of the case that doesn't make any sense, and the

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