Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Movie Details:
Country | United state |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime, Mystery |
Release date | September 10, 2022 (TIFF) November 23, 2022 (United States) December 23, 2022 (Netflix) |
Running time | 2hr 21min |
Age rating | PG-13 |
Starring | Daniel Craig Edward Norton Janelle Monáe Kathryn Hahn Leslie Odom Jr. Jessica Henwick Madelyn Cline Kate Hudson Dave Bautista |
Directed by | Rian Johnson |
Written by | Rian Johnson |
Produced by | Ram Bergman Rian Johnson |
Cinematography by | Steve Yedlin |
Edited by | Bob Ducsay |
Music by | Nathan Johnson |
Production Company | T-Street Productions |
Distributor | Netflix |
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Movie Cast & Characters:
- Daniel Craig during his appointment as an honorary officer of the Royal Navy.
- Daniel Craig reprises his role as Detective Benoit Blanc.
- Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a private investigator.
- Edward Norton as Miles Bron, a billionaire and owner of Alpha, a large technology company.
- Janelle Monáe as
- Andi Brand, co-founder of Alpha and Miles’s ex-business partner.
- Helen Brand, Andi’s identical twin sister, an elementary school teacher from Alabama.
- Kathryn Hahn as Claire Debella, the governor of Connecticut, now running for the United States Senate.
- Leslie Odom Jr. as Lionel Toussaint, the head scientist for Miles’s company.
- Kate Hudson as Birdie Jay, a hedonistic, politically incorrect former supermodel turned fashion designer in Manhattan.
- Dave Bautista as Duke Cody, a video game streamer and men’s rights activist on Twitch and YouTube.
- Jessica Henwick as Peg, Birdie’s assistant.
- Madelyn Cline as Whiskey, Duke’s girlfriend and Twitch channel assistant.
- Noah Segan as Derol, a slacker who lives on Miles’s island. Segan previously appeared in Knives Out (2019) as Trooper Wagner.
- Jackie Hoffman as Ma, Duke’s mother.
- Dallas Roberts as Devon Debella, Claire’s husband.
Storyline:
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Budget | $40 million |
Worldwide Collection | $15 million |
About Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Movie:
It is a standalone sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out.
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.
Filming began on Spetses, an island in Greece, on June 28, 2021, and wrapped officially on September 13, 2021.
In March 2021, Netflix outbid Amazon and Apple at an auction to acquire the rights to the film and another sequel to Knives Out for $469 million.
The film’s teaser trailer was released on September 8, 2022, followed by a full trailer on November 7, 2022.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022. The film also screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival in October 2022, closed at the BFI London Film Festival on October 16 and Film Fest 919 on October 30, 2022, and screened at the Miami International Film Festival as its opening night film on November 3, 2022. The Los Angeles premiere took place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 14, 2022.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was released on Netflix on December 23, 2022. The film received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Johnson’s screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast, and the musical score.
Over its first 10 days of digital release, the film logged over 209.5 million hours viewed worldwide.
The National Board of Review named Glass Onion as one of the top ten films of 2022. The film received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades.