Director Rian Johnson has revealed that Star Wars and the MCU played a pivotal role in Ethan Hawke signing on to the Knives Out franchise. Johnson described the serendipitous way the collaboration came about in an interview with Andy Volk, lead programmer at the 2022 Austin Film Festival on Nov. 3. “We got really lucky,” he said. “Ethan was shooting the show with Oscar Isaac in Budapest, and so he came down to Greece for a day.”
The show in question was Marvel’s Moon Knight (2022), a Disney Plus streaming series that was shooting in Hungary while Johnson was on location in Greece filming Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.