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Ryan Johnson loves a good genre movie.

He always has. And genre movies are great. I mean,

I'm personally not a horror movie guy per se, but if you give me a movie about a sad policeman

in the 70s or like a screwball comedy where the joke is that a doctor is bad at being a doctor,

I am happy as a clam.

But the things that make a genre movie great can sometimes keep it from reaching fans who are outside of that world, critics, people who go to summer blockbusters, Academy Awards voters.

For the last 20 years, Ryan Johnson has dedicated his career to making genre movies that

transcend the limits of their genre. It started with Brick. That was a Raymond Carver-esque

detective story set in a Southern California high school. Looper was a movie about time-traveling

Hitman, Star Wars, The Last Jedi, which was and is the best

Star Wars movie. And of course, Knives Out, the smash hit film series that blends big

over-the-top whodunit stories with sharp specific humor and social satire. Johnson just wrote

and directed the third movie in the series. It's called

Wake Up Dead Man. It's set in a rural Catholic church where Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc investigates

the death of the local Monsignor. Have you seen Wake Up Dead Man yet? I have. I loved it. I am so

thrilled to welcome an old friend of our program an old friend

of mine ryan johnson back onto the show let's get right into it

it ryan johnson welcome back to bullseye i'm so happy to have you back. It's very nice to see you.

Well, I've been looking forward to this. It's going to be. This is a pleasure, man.

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