The thriller continues. Knives Out rapidly turned a beloved franchise following its first two movies — and Benoit Blanc’s adventures are simply getting began.
The primary film, which was launched in 2019, explored the loss of life of famend author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) and the way his rich, dysfunctional household could have performed a task in his demise. Viewers watched as detective Blanc (Daniel Craig) labored along with Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) to unravel the homicide — because the nurse secretly tried to cowl up her personal involvement.
Knives Out additionally starred Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell.
Rian Johnson, who directed, wrote and produced the movie, went on to increase the Knives Out universe with the primary sequel. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller served as an anthology with solely Craig returning as his character from the primary movie.
On the time, Johnson mentioned having freedom to discover the tales he was inquisitive about telling.
“A part of the enjoyable of these items is the concept that they’re not sequels, they’re utterly new books they usually’re utterly new tales,” Johnson defined to Selection in September 2022. “To me, the thought for the following one — and I’m going to attempt to keep on this mind-set as I write it — it’s not about making an attempt to prime the earlier one, it’s about simply making an attempt to create one thing that surprises us and thus hopefully will shock the viewers and thus delight the viewers.”
Glass Onion, which premiered on Netflix in December 2022, launched a brand new group of individuals on the middle of a homicide investigation. After touring to a distant island in Greece, Benoit tried to determine who was answerable for two deaths related to fictional tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton).
Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista rounded out the forged of the second installment.
That very same month, Johnson mirrored on how Glass Onion has impressed the writing course of for Knives Out 3. “Popping out of the expertise of creating [Glass Onion], I’m so creatively jazzed by this way, and I’ve already began to dig in and attempt to work out what the following one might be,” he teased to Oscars.org on the time.
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