![]() Helen discovers that each of Miles's friends visited Andi's home on the day she died. Helen helps Blanc discover motives for Miles's friends to protect Miles from Andi: Lionel and Claire have staked their reputations on Klear, Miles is financially rescuing Birdie from the fallout of ignorantly employing sweatshops, and Duke hopes Miles will give him a show on Alpha News. ![]() With Andi's death not yet public knowledge, Blanc persuaded Helen to pose as Andi at Miles's party and help him investigate. Helen suspects that someone in the group killed Andi and stole the napkin to protect Miles. The napkin was actually Andi's work shortly before her death, she emailed the group a photo showing the original napkin still in her possession. At Alpha, Andi had halted Klear's development because of its dangerous properties, so Miles had her removed as CEO his case was aided by their friends perjuring themselves to testify that Miles had single-handedly sketched out the plan for Alpha on a napkin years before. Blanc gathers the group and announces that he has solved Andi's murder.Īn extended flashback shows that Andi actually died a week earlier, apparently by suicide her twin sister Helen hired Blanc to investigate. In the dark, Blanc finds Andi, but an unseen assailant shoots her. After the group discovers Duke's pistol is missing, the power goes out, and everyone splits up. ![]() The police are summoned but will not arrive until morning. Duke dies after drinking from Miles's glass, and the panicked group suspects Andi of attempting to poison Miles. After an argument with the rest of the group, Andi storms off. Miles also reveals that the mansion is powered by "Klear", a hydrogen-based alternative fuel that Alpha will launch imminently, despite Lionel and Claire's concerns that it is untested and dangerous.īlanc solves Miles's murder mystery game immediately and privately warns Miles that his guests have motives to kill him. Famous detective Benoit Blanc joins them although Miles says he did not invite Blanc, he allows Blanc to stay, assuming another guest sent him an invitation as a joke.īefore dinner, Miles shows off his valuable glass sculptures, as well as the Mona Lisa, which he has on loan from the Louvre. ![]() The five travel to Miles's island, along with Birdie's assistant Peg and Duke's girlfriend Whiskey. The five friends are delivered a wooden puzzle box to decipher to find the invitation inside the former four solve the puzzle successfully while Andi simply smashes open the box. He invites five friends: Alpha head scientist Lionel Toussaint, Connecticut governor Claire Debella, controversial fashion designer and model Birdie Jay, men's rights streamer Duke Cody, and ousted Alpha co-founder Cassandra "Andi" Brand. Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th century painting, Mona Lisa, which is featured as a major plot point in the filmĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Miles Bron, the billionaire co-founder of technology company Alpha, hosts a murder mystery game at the Glass Onion, his mansion on a private island in Greece. The film received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades. The National Board of Review named Glass Onion as one of the top ten films of 2022. Like its predecessor, Glass Onion received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Johnson's screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast, and the musical score. The second sequel is in development as of March 2023.įollowing its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022, Glass Onion began a one-week limited theatrical release on November 23, 2022, receiving the widest theatrical release ever for a Netflix film and grossing $15 million Netflix began streaming it on December 23. Filming took place with a $40 million budget on the island of Spetses, Greece, in June and July 2021, and continued in Belgrade, Serbia, until September. A sequel was greenlit by its original distributor Lionsgate in 2020, but in March 2021 Netflix bought the rights to two Knives Out sequels for $469 million. Johnson had considered several films featuring the Benoit Blanc character before the first film's release. The ensemble cast also includes Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case revolving around tech billionaire Miles Bron (played by Edward Norton) and his closest friends. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (titled onscreen as simply Glass Onion) is a 2022 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Johnson and Ram Bergman.
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