A new whodunnit unfolds in the trailer for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista round out Glass Onion's ensemble cast
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A new Benoit Blanc case has been slowly peeling away its layers, and now comes into full view with the official trailer for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Glass Onion begins with a reunion, as tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites a group of old friends to his private Grecian island for a getaway.
“I’ve invited you all to my island because tonight, a murder will be committed. My murder,” Norton’s Bron says in the trailer, setting up a murder mystery game spanning his glass castle. It’s all fun and games—until someone ends up actually dead.
“The killer is in plain sight,” Blanc deduces. “For at least one person, this is not a game.”
Glass Onion features an ensemble including Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. Those making supporting appearances throughout the film include Ethan Hawke, Jackie Hoffman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natasha Lyonne, Hugh Grant, Yo-Yo Ma, as well as the late Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim.
“I wanted to establish right off the bat that every single [Knives Out movie] is going to be a very different animal,” Johnson tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “Each one of them must have its own reason for being and its own theme. It’s not just repeating a formula, but using this genre to create a whole new formula every time. Sometimes with series or sequels, it can become weird, stratified, fossilized from the previous movies. The fun thing to me is genuinely creating something fresh and new.”
The first Knives Out found inspiration in the work of Agatha Christie, and Glass Onion only continues the trend. While making the sequel, Johnson says he turned to Sondheim and Anthony Perkins’ 1973 The Last of Sheila as well as the 1982 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Evil Under The Sun.
Glass Onion is set for a limited theatrical release on November 23, before arriving on Netflix one month later on December 23.
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Benoit is right: Clue is a terrible game. Badly balance, badly paced, too much downtime, not enough sense of “escalation”.
I find playing it to be a very cozy experience, but that has nothing to do with critical thinking.
It brought us “Flames! On the side of my face!” so I’m not going to ding it too much.
And:Wadsworth : But, he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared.Mrs. White : But that was his job. He was an illusionist.Wadsworth : But he never reappeared!Mrs. White : [admittedly] He wasn’t a very good illusionist.God damn, Madeline Khan was a treasure.
And: Men should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong and disposable
Like Monopoly, few people likely play by the intended rules — always ask the person on your left and proceed around the table until someone can disprove part of your guess. The game is in remembering who has shown what and to whom you have shown what. By extension, it requires more than two people, despite what the box may say.If you’re only “checking boxes” as BB says, you’re doing it wrong.But certainly there are better games today that scratch the same itch.
wow it looks every bit as stupid and annoying as I was expecting!
Gee, when it was a little thumbnail, I thought Edward Norton was Matthew Perry. But maybe my system’s a little overloaded from the last week or so.
When your supporting cast is far more interesting than the “stars”…uh oh.
It’s called an ensemble. They’re ALL supporting cast.
That’s good for a mystery, though. Too many get spoiled by deducing things based off of an actor’s star power, rather than the story, itself.
Its an ensemble, so every one is kinda on the same level
That’s kind of how large ensemble murder mysteries work.
Meh
“Sometimes with series or sequels, it can become weird, stratified, fossilized from the previous movies. The fun thing to me is genuinely creating something fresh and new.”
I wish he’s cited some examples.
Well, the last time he had a chance to make an installment in a now-formulaic franchise, it started one of the biggest flame wars of the entire internet, so…
Man, the first one was so much fun. This looks overwrought. All the characters, at first glance, feel like caricatures. And man do I hate the trope in movies where they assemble actors/write characters who would in no way, under any circumstances, ever be friends and ask the audience to suspend disbelief to buy that this group of people go way back. Meh.
I really liked the first one, but that trailer does absolutely nothing for me. But hey, they put a bunch of seemingly positive quotes from critics in the trailer, so it must be good, right? Right?!
Right!