While original adult films haven’t been faring well at the box office of late in the shadow of tentpoles, the one week Thanksgiving sneak preview of Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery looks to change the tide in its short run before hitting the service on Dec.
23. On Crew Call today, we talk with filmmaker Rian Johnson’s cousin, Nathan Johnson, who has composed on the former’s entire big screen canon sans Star Wars: The Last Jedi (where he was subbed by, natch, the original franchise composer John Williams).
As Netflix scooped up Knives Out 2 and 3 for $400M, Glass Onion here is of course a much bigger, more luxe sequel from the $40M budgeted original theatrical release.
It’s not just the new mystery which is set at a tech titan’s (Edward Norton Greek) estate among his rich friends that reflects that, but in the score as well.
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