Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Rian Johnson's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- During the filming of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Daniel Craig improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- Before Daniel Craig was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson, the standalone sequel to his 2019 hit Knives Out. Daniel Craig returns as the flamboyant Southern detective Benoit Blanc, who receives an invitation to a murder mystery party on a private Greek island owned by tech billionaire Miles Bron, played by Edward Norton. The weekend gathering of Bron's inner circle — including a disgraced model, a men's rights influencer, a scientist, a politician, and Bron's estranged former business partner Andi Brand, played by Janelle Monáe — turns deadly when a real murder disrupts the game.
Rian Johnson constructed another delightfully clever mystery that used its midpoint twist to completely restructure the audience's understanding of what they'd been watching, rewinding to reveal hidden layers. Edward Norton's Miles Bron was a razor-sharp satirization of Silicon Valley billionaire culture — a man whose perceived genius is actually mediocrity propped up by others' stolen work and sycophantic enablers. Glass Onion debuted on Netflix and was viewed by over 82 million hours in its first week.
