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Daniel Craig reprises his function as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

We liked director Rian Johnson’s pleasant 2019 hit movie Knives Out as a lot as anybody. So we have been desperate to study extra concerning the upcoming sequels commissioned by Netflix. Fortunately, the streaming platform simply dropped the primary teaser for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery—and per Johnson, it is much less of a sequel and extra of a brand new standalone thriller that includes Daniel Craig’s philosophically minded Kentucky sleuth Benoit Blanc. Based on the teaser, it appears to be like fabulous, and we will not watch for the movie’s launch later this fall.

Knives Out premiered on the Toronto International Film Festival and was an on the spot hit, and phrase of mouth unfold shortly. The movie ended up grossing $311 million worldwide—the top-grossing movie in 2019 not based mostly on present IP. In my evaluation, I praised Johnson’s deft means to combine darkish subject material with a lighter contact in his old-school traditional whodunnit: “Think Clue meets Murder on the Orient Express—or any variety of variations of novels by the grande dame of homicide mysteries, Agatha Christie—each of which the director cited as influences through a 2019 Twitter thread of film posters.”

So naturally there was going to be a sequel… or two. Lionsgate initially took on the undertaking, however in 2021 Netflix gained a bidding struggle for the rights to the movie plus a second sequel, beating out each Amazon and Apple with a whopping $469 million bid. Johnson wrote the script for Glass Onion in the course of the pandemic, impressed significantly by the Christie-based “tropical getaway” whodunnit Evil Under the Sun (1982), in addition to a 1973 movie referred to as The Last of Sheila.

The all-star cast of <em>Glass Onion</em>
Enlarge / The all-star solid of Glass Onion

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Craig had forgotten his distinctive Southern drawl since capturing the primary movie, and quite than attempt to wing it, he labored with an accent coach for just a few months to “make it as grounded and anchored in actuality as attainable.” Johnson has mentioned that Glass Onion will showcase Blanc’s perspective a bit greater than its predecessor; we are going to meet the brand new characters by his eyes. Per the official premise:

If Knives Out was concerning the murderous ties of flesh and blood, Glass Onion makes a very good case for being simply as cautious of 1’s closest mates. When tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invitations a few of his nearest and dearest for a getaway on his non-public Greek island, it quickly turns into clear that each one shouldn’t be good in paradise. And when somebody turns up useless, effectively, who higher than [Benoit] Blanc to peel again the layers of intrigue?

In addition to Craig and Norton, the solid consists of Janelle Monae as a tech entrepreneur named Cassandra “Andi” Brand; Kathryn Hahn as an bold governor of Connecticut eager to run for the US Senate; Leslie Odom Jr. as one in every of Bron’s scientists, Lionel Toussaint; Kate Hudson as a designer named Birdie Jay; Jessica Henwick as Birdie’s assistant, Peg; Dave Bautista as a YouTube star named Duke Cody; and Madelyn Cline as Duke’s assistant (and girlfriend) Whiskey. Ethan Hawke can even seem in an as-yet-undisclosed function.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will make its world debut on the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10. It can be launched in choose theaters in November earlier than hitting Netflix on December 23.

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