Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (titled onscreen as simply Glass Onion) is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman. It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, and the second instalment in the Knives Out film series, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton) and his closest friends. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. Johnson had considered several films featuring the Benoit Blanc character before the first film's release. A sequel was greenlit by its original distributor Lionsgate in 2020, but in March 2021 Netflix bought the rights to two Knives Out sequels for $469 million. The cast signed on that May. Filming took place with a $40 million budget on the island of Spetses, Greece, in June and July 2021, and continued in Belgrade, Serbia, until September. Following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022, Glass Onion began a one-week limited theatrical release on November 23, 2022, receiving the widest theatrical release ever for a Netflix film and grossing $15 million; Netflix began streaming it on December 23. Like its predecessor, Glass Onion received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Johnson's screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast, and the musical score. The National Board of Review named Glass Onion as one of the top ten films of 2022. The film received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades. A third film, titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, is set to be released in 2025. The film will star Craig, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close, Josh O'Connor, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Renner, and Daryl McCormack.
[Birdie chuckles] Miles doesn't even have a phone. It's really convenient. I have one number, goes to all my fax machines all over the world. There's something about analog that's-- Oh! Look at this blast from my past. -[chuckles] -Look, everybody. Look. Miles, you're so funny, having this around. [Benoit] May I ask, if it isn't too presumptuous of me, what first drew you all together? You're such an eclectic bunch. [chuckles] I think disruptors recognize each other. Yes. Now you've used that word before, "disruptors." What does that mean? [Miles] Some people think Birdie's disruptive every time she opens her mouth. I mean, just because she says what everyone's thinking, but no one's got the nerve to say. It's true. I say it like I see it. No. But seriously, you know about Sweetie Pants, right? I'm going to embarrass myself here.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
And look at Duke. You think people looked at him and saw anything other than the beef? You think they saw the first influencer to have a million followers on Twitch? Yes, I did. Here it is. [grunts] Deal with it. -Hello. -[Miles] What about Claire? You know, soccer mom in beige throwing grenades into machine politics. Lionel, he didn't wait ten years licking on the taint of academia to get permission to start pushing the boundaries of science. He just did it. That's what I did with Al-- That's what we did with Alpha. Disrupt. See… Tell you a little secret. Your worldview's gonna change. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Is your phone turned off? -Oh, I left it in my room. -[Miles] Okay. If you want to shake things up, you start with something small. You break a norm, or an idea, or a convention, some little business model. But you go with things that people are kind of tired of anyway. Everybody gets excited because you're busting up something that everyone wanted broken in the first place. That's the infraction point. That's the place where you have to look within yourself and ask, "Am I the kind of person who will keep going?" Will you break more things?
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery