Case closed. The cast of Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery proved that they’re all guilty of being extremely fashionable on the red carpet at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards.
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Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
Knives Out was always intended to be the first of many mysteries Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) could solve. The movie’s success in 2019 made sure it was not the last, though the sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, appears in a slightly different form. The first of two Netflix-produced films (after a $450 million deal) Glass Onion played in theaters for a week in November before its Christmas weekend drop on Netflix.
Writer-director Rian Johnson spent the 2019 press tour and awards circuit expressing his love for Agatha Christie mysteries. Coincidentally, Kenneth Branagh brought back Christie’s Poirot for recent film adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. But, Christie’s stories are now period pieces (she died in 1976), and Johnson wanted to craft modern-day whodunnits with ensembles full of memorable characters as suspects. His Knives Out screenplay would earn an Oscar nomination.
The original film introduced Southern gentleman detective Blanc solving the murder of author Harlan Thrombey. Any of his feuding New England relatives had motive. In Glass Onion, Blanc finds himself invited to a murder mystery party in Greece thrown by tech billionaire Miles Bron. The other guests include Bron’s present and former friends who each maintain some dependent tie with Bron.
“If we keep making these, every single one of them is going to be very different than the last one,” Johnson said in a Netflix behind-the-scenes video.
Suspects in Glass Onion include Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe), the former partner Bron shut out of the company; social media
Case closed. The cast of Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery proved that they’re all guilty of being extremely fashionable on the red carpet at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards.
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.
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Rian Johnson‘s latest whodunit Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has made a splash at Netflix, securing the top spot on the streamer’s English-language film charts for the week of December 26 to January 1.
Over the holidays, Netflix gave the gift of a new “Knives Out” film to its subscribers, titled “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” With the film seemingly doing really great numbers for the streaming service, more and more folks are seeing how the world of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is being expanded on, including revealing a bit about the famed investigator’s personal life.
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Netflix had an early Christmas present for film fans this year, as the streaming service released “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” on December 23. While the jury is still out on whether or not the sequel will be as successful with fans and awards organizations as the original “Knives Out,” it’s safe to say that Rian Johnson’s mystery franchise is still excelling in its second go-round.
Rian Johnson is opening up about the creation of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and said he lamented the film having Knives Out in its title.
The first movie, which was released in 2019, explored the death of renowned writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) and how his wealthy, dysfunctional family may have played a role in his demise. Viewers watched as detective Blanc (Daniel Craig) worked together with Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) to solve the murder — as the nurse secretly tried to cover up her own involvement.