This piece contains spoilers about Knives Out.

Next time the supposed hero pulls out an Android phone in a movie or television show, start getting suspicious. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Rian Johnson claimed Apple isn't keen on allowing its products to be used by villains.

“I don’t know if I should say this or not,” the Knives Out director said in a new Notes on a Scene video. “Not because it’s lascivious or something, but because it’s gonna screw me on the next mystery movie that I write. But forget it, I’ll say it, it’s very interesting. Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies—but, and this is very pivotal, if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera.”

In the Knives Out scene in question, Jamie Lee Curtis' character is shown using an iPhone; her on-screen son, played by Chris Evans, does not have an Apple product at his disposal. This is notable since Evans' character eventually turns out to be the film's villain in a third-act twist.

Said Johnson, “Every single filmmaker who has a bad guy in their movie that’s supposed to be a secret wants to murder me right now.”

A representative for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Knives Out was a blockbuster hit for Johnson, earning more than $300 million at the worldwide box office and landing the writer-director his first Oscar nomination for original screenplay. A sequel to the film, which starred Curtis, Evans, Daniel Craig, Ana De Armas, Christopher Plummer, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, and Lakeith Stanfield, is already in development.

Beyond spoiling supposed Apple secrets, Johnson also revealed that his initial script for Knives Out would have carried an R-rating—in part because of Evans' first big scene. In the finished film, Evans' character, Ransom, implores every member of his family to “eat shit,” but Johnson originally wrote Ransom saying “fuck you.”

“A big thing with this movie, for me, was remembering back to the Agatha Christie movies I grew up watching with my family when I was 10 to 13 years old, in that range,” he said. “Remembering how fun those movies were, the whole family sitting down and watching them together. I realized before shooting, you know what? I want this movie to be PG-13.”

According to Johnson, it was Evans who came up with the “eat shit” kiss-off. You could say the former Captain America just decided to think different.

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