Earlier this week, ArcLight Hollywood hosted the Collider FYC screening of Knives Out, which saw writer-director Rian Johnson and composer Nathan Johnson sit down with Scott Mantz in front of a sold-out crowd. Knives Out is a whodunnit that focuses on the Thrombey family, whose best-selling patriarch, Harlan (Christopher Plummer) is found dead in his mansion on his 85th birthday, prompting Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to investigate his family. The all-star ensemble also includes Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell. …

Knives Out is one of the best films of 2019 for many, many reasons. It’s supremely entertaining, insanely smart, and incredibly well-acted, but really all of the superlatives I could heap on this whodunit can be summed up by saying it is tremendously well-made. Writer/director Rian Johnson knows what he’s doing, and he’s honed his craft over five feature films, each entirely different from the last, and a vital part of all but one of those films has been his relationship with his composer Nathan Johnson. Nathan and Rian grew up making movies together (…