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A sequel of a 2019-film favourite that cuts deep is making its way back on television screens in a few days, with a new cast and a fresh murder mystery featuring a tech billionaire and a private island in Greece, for sharply dressed detective Benoit Blanc to solve, writes Carol Spencer.
The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sequel to Knives Out will include Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daniel Craig reprising his role of the charming Southern detective.
Rian Johnson, who directed both movies, helped peel back one of the franchise’s biggest mysteries when he explained what ‘Glass Onion’ means.
He told Reuters, “Well it’s a Beatles song first and foremost and it’s kind of a Beatles song about a mystery that’s not actually a mystery.”
“I ended up working in the idea of the glass onion of this thing that seems densely layered but in reality, it’s pretty transparent,” he added. “That’s kind of the metaphor that Blanc grabs on to and beats to death over the course of the movie. So it means a few things.”
Interestingly, each character’s outfit alludes to something about them to help guide the audience.
“I can’t think of a film that I’ve been in, in quite a while where the costumes had such a presence in the film,” Norton said in an interview. “It’s character defining... Every entrance produces laughs.”
Mystery lovers will find plenty to keep them entertained.
“The movie is incredibly generous with its spoilers, with its Easter eggs, whatever you want to call them,” said Craig.
“If you watch it you will get some of them, if you want to watch it again, you’ll get more, and it keeps on growing because what Rian does so brilliantly is he lays all this groundwork, he does all these things and every single thing pays off.”
The film will be available for streaming on Netflix on December 23.
