Good news for fans of extremely chewy accents: Daniel Craig is set to return as Benoit Blanc, his Southern Belle detective in the enjoyably twisty whodunnit Knives Out,

The Hollywood Reporter says that writer and director Rian Johnson is already at work on a sequel which focused again on Blanc and wants to get it sorted over the next year. Given that Knives Out is one of very few original films to make a fat wedge in the last year – about $248 million so far – that's very likely to happen. Plus, it sounds like Craig is up for it too.

"Daniel had so much fun doing it, and he wants to do more," Ram Bergman, Johnson's producing partner, added.

Craig has said as much himself, too. When E! put him on the spot about a sequel, he told them: "I wouldn't say no." Taking that into account, our algorithms suggest one of the conversational options still open to Craig is 'yes'.

Johnson has been itching to turn Knives Out into a series for a while.

"We had so much fun doing this," he said at the premiere in November. "If we could get together every few years and do a new Benoit Blanc mystery... just do, like, a new cast, new location, new mystery about a whole new set of things, I think that would be a blast. But we'll see."

From Knives Out, we know Blanc's famous enough to have been profiled in the New Yorker and enjoys the work of Stephen Sondheim, but perhaps the biggest mystery is exactly which southern state of the US he's from, and whether he'll go the full Blanche Dubois well-ah-do-de-clay-uh next time.

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