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.

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If people can't handle it, that's their problem. What's this? -Don't know. Some guy just dropped it off. -[woman gasps]

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[cell phone ringing]

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All right, genius, what is this thing? -Well… -It's a Miles invitation. [sighs] Well, duh! But I mean, what is it? -It's just like a block of wood. -There's gotta be a way to open it. It's solid. There's no latches or even visible seams. The wood-grain pattern's weird though. It's like it's familiar. -[cell phone chiming] -Hmm. Oh, wait. Hold on. It's Birdie. Okay, how do you open this thing? -Hi, Birdie. Lionel's on two. Hi, Peg! -Hi! Oh no. Peg's putting out a fire. She'll be back. Another fire? Bird. What'd you say this time? -No. -You've got to stay off the Twitter. It's nothing like that. It's fine. Now, is this a Miles thing? Have you figured out how to open it, Lionel? Lionel, use your science brain. I'm working on it. Bird, should you really be having a party? No, they're all in my pod. It's fine. Has anyone heard from Duke? -No. -No.

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[clears throat]

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So this has gotten some attention recently, so obviously I would like to speak to this, and the answer is no, Jimmy Kimmel, I do not hate boobs.

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Boobs give us many useful things. Boobs give us milk, cheese. Breasts nourish our young until the age where we can go out and hunt for them.

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Let's be honest. Boobs are fun. There's nothing wrong with that, right, babe? I love my boobs. They're so much fun. -Oops! Sorry, feminists! -Sorry, feminists. So when we're talking about the breast-ification of America… I mean, what that means is a breakdown in the natural order. Evolutionary truths that go back billions of years. So when you're asking a young man in America to slow down so a woman can catch up… [older woman] Duke! For centuries, the Western workplace has been dominated by men 'cause… -[older woman] Dukey! -…that's what nature made us to do. Dukey! I've been calling you. You gotta answer me when I call! Mom! Will you shut it? We've been over this a million times. I told you. When me and Whiskey are live, you gotta let us-- You tell your mother to shut up?

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-Sorry. It's just when we're live-- -What?

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-When we're-- -What?

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Jeez, Mom. I'm sorry.

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You got a delivery. It's in the kitchen.

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Maybe it's sensitive to heat. -[phone buzzes] -[gasps] Wait. It's Duke. Hold on. -Duke! -[Duke] Hey, what is this thing? -My mom already broke it. -It's a stereogram. [Duke] She did something to it. It opened up. I don't know. She broke it. A stereogram! [Claire] A what-a-gram?

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Wait, a stereogram! Were those the things-- [Claire's husband] Magic eye things? I could never do those. [Duke] Ma! What did I tell you about touching my stuff?

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[mechanical clicking]

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[Peg] Do you group them by color maybe or… Size? Weight? Should I weigh them? Eight by eight. It's a chessboard. This is a chess endgame.

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So it's… It's set up for a mate in one. Should I-- [Lionel] Do it, Kasparov. [clicks]

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[gasps] That's tic-tac-toe! I know this! -But it's solved already, so it can't be. -It's tic-tac-toe. But thank you for contributing, Birdie. Yes. Wait, wait. The tapper thing is for Morse code. The X's and O's are dots and dashes. Dit's and Da's! -So that's… Yep. -[Claire gasps] Oh, wow. O-U-R. Here. It's tic-tac-toe. -[box clicking] -[soaring music plays]

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[Birdie] Is something supposed to happen? [Claire] "N." Maybe it stands for something, maybe in one of the other puzzles? It's a compass. -Ma! -It's a compass! Okay, north, south… Okay, N is for north, so turn it due north.

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[clicks] [music box playing]

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-[gasps] It's music. Guys, it's music! -Shh! -Are you mocking me? -Yes. Okay, ha-ha, I'm gonna Shazam it. What is that? Alexa, Shazam this song please. Alexa, Shazam this song please. Hey, this is Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor. -You sure? -Yeah. Uh, I'm Shazam-ing it. Alexa, Shazam this song please. So a fugue is a beautiful musical puzzle based on just one tune. And when you layer this tune on top of itself, it starts to change and turns into a beautiful new structure. This can't Shazam. It's a lamp. -I love you, Birdie. -I love you too, Claire. Wait. "La-la-layered back over itself." Hold on.

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