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Benoit blanc11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() But I just loved this genre so much, having grown up sitting around the TV with my family and watching Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov and just feeling like that’s the most fun a movie can possibly be. Even friends of mine who really enjoyed the script when I showed it to them were like, “Are you sure you want to do a murder mystery?” There was the idea that I could take a bigger swing. It had been lying there for a bit and getting a little dusty. The genre was something that - there were good examples of it being done, but it wasn’t something that was really at the forefront. I was coming off of the Star Wars movie, which was obviously the biggest thing I’ll ever do in my life, when I sat down and wrote this murder mystery. Were you surprised by the strong response to the first movie? I believe I saw two Chris Evans sweaters this past Halloween. The maiden Knives Out is critically acclaimed, widely beloved by folks who are really into the murder-mystery genre and also people who are not super-familiar with the genre. I just want to make it as verbally awkward as possible for you to describe what it is. Glass Onion: The Other Movie From the Knives Out Franchise. It’s not just turning the grinder handle on another one. It’s just kind of its own deal and hopefully its own reason for being. It’s really a whole new cast, a whole new mystery. ![]() Yeah, the timeline shouldn’t even matter. So I was thinking of it the same way that she did her books where it’s the same detective. This whole thing came from me loving Agatha Christie and me growing up loving her books and loving the movies made from her books. This has been an ongoing conversation with Netflix - how they make sure people know that it’s a continuation. Second part? The second installment? The second entry? So we’re here to talk about Glass Onion, the sequel to - would you consider it a sequel? Watch the full conversation below, or read on for the transcript. Those things were very much present in Johnson himself when he sat down to talk with us at Vulture Festival, where he discussed, among other things, his feelings for Angela Lansbury. Gone are Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chris Evans’s sweater replacing them is a new array of faces that includes Kate Hudson, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, and all 15 of Dave Bautista’s pectoral muscles.įor the most part, though, the beating heart of Knives Out remains pretty much the same in Glass Onion, which, by the way, our film critic Alison Wilmore considers “bigger and better than the original.” The new film carries over its predecessor’s sense of fun and its structural playfulness, along with a deep, sincere love for Agatha Christie and the broader murder-mystery genre. The cast, save for Daniel Craig’s gentleman sleuth, has been rotated out as well. For one thing, there’s the setting director Rian Johnson has swapped out the foggy New England locale for the sunshine sizzle of a private Greek island. There are plenty of differences between the original 2019 Knives Out and Glass Onion, its 2022 follow-up in the emerging Benoit Blanc universe, which comes out in limited theatrical release this week. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery arrives on Netflix on December 23.“I wanted to say right up front with Glass Onion, ‘This is going to be the way these movies are’ - that every single one is totally different.” A lot of the undertones in it are hidden by the fact it’s just funny.” “We need to see how complicated these people are. If you set someone up and throw darts at them, it’s entertaining for a minute but after a while it’s just very boring. Speaking of the rest of the cast of characters – including Edward Norton as a slippery tech billionaire and Kate Hudson as a former model turned fashion designer and social media casualty – Craig said: “There are some horrible people in this movie but you can’t help but like them. I think he’s been very innovative in this whodunnit space.” There are so many comedic moments in a specific tone that Rian has created. “The other beautiful thing about it is because the characters are modernised, the audience members will take away from it who they are and what experience they know. “This is a murder mystery whodunnit film that is meant to take people on a ride and an experience first,” said Monáe. Ultimately and with any messages about modern society put aside, the two stars said that the “Number One rule” of Glass Onion was to be “entertaining”. ![]() Janelle Monae at the Met Gala 2022 CREDIT: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue If you want to have a little think at the same time, then knock yourself out.” They’re fun movies and all we want is for people to come and have fun watching them. ![]()
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