‘Glass Onion’ Director Rian Johnson, Stars Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson & Kathryn Hahn On Giving The Sequel A Fresh Look — Contenders L.A.
deadline.comWhile Knives Out was a sleeper hit in 2019, its sequel, Glass Onions: A Knives Out Mystery, has become one of the most anticipated new releases of 2022.
The murder mystery features a reteaming of writer/director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig and is set on a luxurious Greek island. RELATED: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage At Saturday’s Contenders Los Angeles event, the director told Deadline’s chief film critic Peter Hammond how he turned to Agatha Christie for inspiration for injecting fresh life into the sequel. “Christie was doing wild new swings with every single thing that she published and she was swinging for the rafters,” Johnson said. “She was shaking it up.
She was subverting the genre and turning it on its head … and so that was our goal with this one is let’s make something that gives you a fun who-done-it and scratches the same itch but let’s do it in a way that’s going to truly surprise and delight people.” Like the first film, Glass Onion features an all-star cast of actors with the likes of Craig, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn and Edward Norton forming a new group of suspects and victims. RELATED: Deadline Contenders Film Los Angeles Arrivals & Panels Gallery All of the actors present spoke to the joy and enthusiasm they had for joining the film and Monáe shared the excitement she felt working with Johnson. “It was a dream of mine to get that call and to work with Ryan.
He has been a director on my mind since I saw Looper and then I went down this rabbit hole, I went to watch Brick and everything and then I saw the first Knives Out with Daniel.
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