When it comes to killing, Ryan Johnson knows what items are the perfect crime.
The writer and director spent the past six years immersed in this type of Whodunit, surrounding the southern Daniel Craig investigator Benoa Bank with a group of strange suspects in two “knives” (third outside this fall), and adapt the procedural form of broadcasting with “Peaker Poker”.
“This type of ambiguity has served me well,” Johnson told Business Insider with a laugh in the days before the second season of “Poker Face” on Thursday.
The series, starring Lyon in the role of Charlie Cal, is a former casino worker that solves mystery in the tour of the mob, coordinates the week’s condition to display all types of Zany scenarios that were carried out by a group of stars guest stars. This season, Charlie should do everything from work as an addition to the B movie that was placed in a morgue run by Giancarlo Esposito to find the killer between Quadrupss all played by Cenatia Evo.
Nathasha Leon and Ryan Johnson at the first show of the second season of “Poker Face”.
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The familiar procedural coordination in the series helps keep the display on the basis, so that Johnson can encourage the book “Poker Face” to reach strange scenarios for each episode.
Johnson said: “For me, after a show like this, it will be sad if you have come out of a copy of the same time,” Johnson said. “It is an engine to pay crazy Batshit ideas that you may not make otherwise. This, for me, is the fun part.”
Johnson knows the value in keeping things creative creatively. For this reason, he plans to take a Whodunit break and start a new project after its latest “out” Up Dead Man “Netflix this fall.
Johnson told Bi about his next idea: “It is a completely different thing.” (No, it is not a return to the “stars war”.) “It is a little frightening, but in an enjoyable way.”
Below, Business Insider talked with Johnson about converting crazy ideas into “Poix Face” episodes, throwing actors via a group chat, and why he hopes that “Wake Up Dead Man” will run in the largest possible number of cinema theaters – despite the CEO of Netflix Ted Sarandos “Theaters of the Film” that pardon Time.
Business Insider: Every “Poker Face” episode this season looks like a small movie. While watching, I wondered if there was an archiving in the exhibition with an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that happened, just to make sure not to repeat somewhat or the way someone was killed.
Ryan Johnson: Yes, I [laughs]. Regarding what we did in the previous season, I mean, if you speak to a person who did “law and order” where it is in the 89th and 300 -episode season, they will laugh at us. But we have some of the book room assistants who search. This is one element of it.
What do you need the story of the “Poker Face” proposed to you to think about an episode?
We definitely have a blue sky day when people only rise, “What about the baseball ring?” And others, this is really fun because you also know the book in the room, because everyone displays their pets. Then the truth is that you choose a horse at some point and say: “Well, let’s develop this thing,” then real work occurs, which is the fragmentation of the width and the structure.
Charlie is not a policeman; It is not a job to do these things. Necessarily, you have to find a way for it with each episode. This means that you should develop a relationship, you must have an emotional investment. With “Poker Face”, it’s something you really need to make the ring mark. Therefore, finding ways to do this every week without feeling that he repeats himself, finding the dynamics of different relationships, and finding different ways – the relationship that Charlie has with the murderer or the person who was killed – ends with being one of the biggest challenges in writing.
Natasha Lyon and several Senteia Evos in the first episode of “Poker Face” Season 2.
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An ideal example is the first episode of the second season, which I brought out. In it, Charlie meets the character of Cenatia Evo while working in the apple garden. Did nothing be used last season?
No, preparing the orchard was new. I think part of it came from the shooting in New York, and we were like, “What is there? Oh, an apple garden. It will be perfect!” But this is also an enjoyable element in it. It returns to “Colombo” or more “quantum jump”, each ring grows up to a mini -fish basin in the world. Episode 1 came from the idea of all these wrong beginnings. We had a “Poker Face” episode in Hayride or a car garage, but these alleged gunmen continue to chase Charlie.
Do you personally participate in choosing guest stars?
Yes. The casting of the main guest stars is a text thread with me, Natasha, Tony Toast, The Showrunner, and our cast managers. Sometimes I and Natasha are wearing ideas for friends back and forth. It is a very fun, personal and chaotic process because we perform the offer from a week to a week.
Therefore, there is a lot of identifying whether the timelines will fit.
But there is also an element, “I went out last night on dinner and installed it and so on. Do you think they want to be in this episode that begins filming on Monday?” There is a little fly element of your fleet, which is fun and terrifying. It is amazing to reach the end of the season after this process and look back and see the list we got.
Did the actor who came out to him for the show decreased because they held a role in the movie “The knives outside”?
[Laughs] Not as far as my knowledge. If this happens, they did not give this reason to me. But also in one that does not prevent you from being in the other. These are very different operations that are either. We are shooting with “the face of the poker”. We started shooting at this middle of the road to “waking up the dead man”.
Josh O’Connor will star alongside the main actor “Knives Out” Daniel Craig in “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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So someone can appear in the movie “Poker Face”, and vice versa?
definitely. Most of the people this season I would have spread a heart in the movie “Skakin outside”.
After “the dead man woke up”, have you thought about what you would do next?
In fact, I have a full movie in my head I should just write, which makes it easy, but it will not be. I hope to take the summer and dig in it. It is not Benoit Blanc, it’s not the mystery of the killing, it’s a completely different type. It is original. So, I hope to dive into it.
Therefore, not to return to a distant galaxy, away?
Not for this one next.
Recently, Netflix spoke to the summit at Time100 and said this from the theatrical version: “People have arose in thinking,” I want to make movies on a giant screen, make strangers watch them, play in the theater for two months, people cry, and offers to sell them. “It is no longer happening anymore. Do you agree with him?
I am clearly not, because I love movies. I would like to go to watch movies. However, I also have a feeling of talking to TED, it will be a different thing from one quote captured and a kind of ejaculation in this context. So I don’t want to fill this because I am discussing an agent with TED here.
However, I will say, not related to it, I think the play is not going anywhere. With the success of Ryan [Coogler]”
I’m sure you have discussed TED yourself about the play inside the Netflix bubble. Daniel Craig registered His saying that he was saddened by how “glass onions” were released in a few theaters. Do you hope to display “Wake up Dead Man” on more screens?
We’ll see. We will pay for everything we can get. I want this in the largest possible number of theaters as long as possible. I love Ted, I love working with Netflix. They were very great partners. We will pay for everything we can get in terms of theater, however I want the largest possible number of people to see it like this.
This interview has been intensified and edited for clarity.
The first three episodes of “Poker Face” are now flowing on Peacock, with new episodes that fall weekly on Thursday.
