Rian Johnson has grow to be the king of the thriller style with Knives Out, Glass Onion, and now Poker Face. The new sequence follows Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), who has a singular capability to inform if individuals are mendacity to her. Each week, Charlie finds herself in the midst of a brand new thriller, pulled in by her expertise as a human lie detector and an surprising circumstance.
However, as an alternative of the Agatha Christie fashion of whodunit thriller, Poker Face takes inspiration from the traditional thriller tv sequence Columbo. The “case of the week” fashion of storytelling permits Charlie to discover new mysteries and characters in each episode. Poker Face options a formidable solid, together with Jameela Jamil, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lil Rel Howery, Clea DuVall, Nick Nolte, and numerous others.
Screen Rant spoke with Johnson about his new sequence, Poker Face. Johnson explains how Poker Face is a “how catch ’em” to Knives Out and Glass Onion’s whodunit. He reveals how the sequence suits into the Knives Out universe and divulges who he’d wish to work with on a second season.
Screen Rant: I completely love this present. Every single episode simply will get higher and higher, with the thriller growing. Mysteries are an iconic style throughout all media, however what’s it about whodunit-style mysteries like Agatha Christie that actually communicate to you? Why do you suppose it is captured the viewers’s consideration the way in which it has?
Rian Johnson: I imply, it is such a enjoyable style, with Knives Out and Glass Onion. It’s a style that I’ve been studying and watching since I used to be a child. I really feel like each few a long time there is a wave the place folks keep in mind precisely how enjoyable it’s. And now with Poker Face, it is a barely totally different thriller kind.
As against a whodunit, I describe it as a “how catch ’em,” as a result of we present you who’s executed it within the first act, after which it is how Natasha going to catch them, which is a complete different subgenre of the thriller that I like. For me, it is enjoyable as a result of it is a barely totally different. It’s an adjoining playground, with a bit bit of various mechanics. But I nonetheless love taking part in in it.
I is perhaps relationship myself right here, however it jogs my memory a bit little bit of Columbo, whereas Glass Onion and Knives Out take a web page out of Agatha Christie. Why did you wish to faucet into that type of thriller storytelling?
Rian Johnson: It all goes again to the identical means that I used to be tapping again into my childhood recollections of Agatha Christie. I used to be considering again to sitting on the carpet in entrance of the TV in my mother and father’ lounge watching TV as a child and watching reruns each day. The pleasure of that and the enjoyment of tuning in each single day to look at a brand new thriller the place it is sort of the identical format, so you understand what to anticipate, however it’ll shock you.
More than that although, the nice characters like James Garner as Rockford or Tom Selleck as Magna Pi or Falk as Columbo—these reveals have been extra hangout reveals than anything. You did not actually tune in for the thriller. You tuned in to hang around with Falk. And so after I turned pals with Natasha and realized she may very well be that for a present, I received actually, actually excited. That’s the place the entire thing began.
Natasha was within the Among Us scene with Benoit Blanc. I do know it is labeled Natasha, not Charlie, however do Poker Face and Glass Onion and Knives Out happen in the identical universe, and will we probably see a bit team-up?
Rian Johnson: It all goes again to the identical means that I used to be tapping again into my childhood recollections of Agatha Christie. I used to be considering again to sitting on the carpet in entrance of the TV in my mother and father’ lounge watching TV as a child and watching reruns each day. The pleasure of that and the enjoyment of tuning in each single day to look at a brand new thriller the place it is sort of the identical format, so you understand what to anticipate, however it’ll shock you.
More than that although, the nice characters like James Garner as Rockford or Tom Selleck as Magna Pi or Falk as Columbo—these reveals have been extra hangout reveals than anything. You did not actually tune in for the thriller. You tuned in to hang around with Falk. And so after I turned pals with Natasha and realized she may very well be that for a present, I received actually, actually excited. That’s the place the entire thing began.
Natasha is so good on this present. Can you speak to me about collaborating together with her, and what she dropped at the position of Charlie that wasn’t on the web page?
Yeah, you’ve so many unimaginable visitor stars on this present, Judith Light, Hong Chau, which might be my favourite…
Jamila Jameel, Tim Meadows… Is there any that stick out to you essentially the most? And is there anyone that you just’d wish to get for season 2?