Mexico City.- Perfectly well integrated into a strange box, there is an invitation to a meeting on a dream island, where an old acquaintance, Miles Bron (Edward Norton), hides some riddles to solve a mystery that concerns them all.
Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.), Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), Duke Cody (Dave Bautista), Whiskey (Madelyn Cline) and Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) arrive at the port that will take them to a Greek island paradise, and Shortly before getting on the yacht that will take them, Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe) joins, a pebble in the shoe
Welcome to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which premieres this Friday on Netflix, and was previously shown in theaters in the United States for the purpose of qualifying for the awards circuit.
“We worked together, hoping that the shooting conditions were going to be the best, because we did it during the pandemic, and I think the result exceeded our expectations,” says its director, writer and producer, Rian Johnson.
It is the sequel to Knives Out, a blockbuster that earned Johnson an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Craig was showered with offers to even franchise it.
“I had a lot of faith in the first film, but from my experience I have to admit that I don’t take anything for granted. Sometimes I think something will be a success and sometimes it doesn’t. And frankly, the success that it had and the good reception of the criticism made me love Benoit more, much more, he’s smart, flirty and sarcastic,” Craig said.
In the plot of the feature film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, it exposes the protagonists in a lavish residence called the Glass Onion, on a paradise island, and which was actually Spetses, in Greece.
“We had so much fun that what you see in the movie is nothing to what happened behind the scenes I think the movie should have been ‘behind the scenes’ because everyone is so much fun,” Hudson said.
“And I don’t think there was anything wrong, because sometimes you stay on complicated shoots, or with little good vibes, and here we were like brothers on a vacation, which although we worked a lot, did give us pleasure and fun,” he added. Monáe.
Glass Onion… shows tycoon Miles Bron forcing his guests to play a quiz about a murder mystery, but it gets out of hand when there is a crime to investigate and he didn’t plan on it.
For this reason, Benoit stays even though he was not contemplated in the original scheme, and Andi becomes the main instigator of the group by questioning certain facts that everyone shies away from.
“When you read a script and it stings, you sting and sting, you keep reading. You know that there is a great opportunity there, and what you are looking for is for the director to take you on that path of mystery that he proposed in the text, and with Rian was sure that this was going to happen, because it is his story.
“We all agree that the best thing was that he treated us like the creators, because we gave life to his characters, and we felt perfectly integrated. It was not only giving orders, it was also integrating and uniting the team, because in history everything counts , even the locker room and the gestures,” said Odom Jr.
Already entered into the investigation, infidelities and betrayals, everyone begins to speculate about the responsibility of others, and that is when the real search for the culprit begins.
