‘Glass Onion’s Miles Bron Not Based On Elon Musk, Says Rian Johnson; Any Resemblance “A Horrible, Horrible Accident”

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Filmmaker Rian Johnson has addressed similarities between his Glass Onion character Miles Bron and Elon Musk, stating that any resemblance between the imaginary tech billionaire and his real-life counterpart is purely unintentional. “There’s a lot of general stuff about that sort of species of tech billionaire that went directly into [the Netflix film].

But obviously, it has almost a weird relevance in exactly the current moment,” said Johnson in a recent interview with Wired. “A friend of mine said, ‘Man, that feels like it was written this afternoon.’ And that’s just sort of a horrible, horrible accident, you know?” Viewers of Johnson’s second in a line of acclaimed whodunits would be forgiven by the director for drawing a comparison between the fictional tech billionaire who owns the pic’s titular Greek mansion, and the real one apparently considering stepping down as Twitter’s CEO, just a couple of months after acquiring the social media platform.

He acknowledges in the Wired interview that Glass Onion’s real-world resonance is “very bizarre,” going on to joke, “I hope there isn’t some secret marketing department at Netflix that’s funding this Twitter takeover.” Johnson at the same time noted that he wrote Glass Onion in 2020, long before Musk came on the scene at Twitter, and that the character of Miles (played by Edward Norton) was more so intended to represent one very familiar archetype among many in our modern-day world. “The intent was to accurately reflect what it’s been like to have our heads in the middle of the cultural sphere for the past six years,” he said. “It’s a pretty nightmarish kind of carnival, Fellini-esque inflated reality right now.” The second in a line of whodunits from Johnson on the heels