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.
"Notes For Future Biographers." Biographers. Plural. -The girl was six years old. -[chuckles] Then the day after high school, she shot off to New York, and she just never looked back. [laughs] You know, when we were kids, we goofed together, and we'd do this character, Rich Bitch.
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So you, um… You get the call… Yeah, yeah. I get the call and I fly in. This was yesterday. And then I go to Andi's house. I'm cleaning it out. It's a mess. All of her books everywhere. And I'm just thinking about what was taken from my sister, how I wasn't there for her. And I'm getting angrier and angrier, and then I just hear a knock at the door, and it's some courier with this thing from Miles Bron.
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And I'm sure there's some clever way to open it. I don't know. I just open it. And it's an invitation to his private island in Greece for next weekend. One of those little trips she'd go on with him and his group of shitheads. They like to call themselves "The Disruptors."
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Andi didn't commit suicide. [dramatic music plays] [Helen] She didn't leave any note. So I went on her computer, and I looked in her email, her sent messages, to see if she wrote anybody anything. And look. She sent this at 4:00 p.m., the day she was murdered, four days ago.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery