Benoit Blanc disses Clue as a “terrible game” in final trailer for Glass Onion
Daniel Craig (and his Southern drawl) returns as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
We've been eagerly awaiting director Rian Johnson's follow-up to 2019's delightful Knives Out, and now we have the final trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Daniel Craig and his Southern drawl are back and in better form than ever as quirky detective Benoit Blanc, and he has an equally colorful all-star ensemble cast of suspects.
As we've reported previously, Knives Out premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was an instant hit, and word of mouth spread quickly. The film ended up grossing $311 million worldwide-the top-grossing film in 2019 not based on existing IP. It was my favorite film of 2019. In my review, I praised Johnson's deft ability to mix dark subject matter with a lighter touch in his old-school classic whodunnit: "Think Clue meets Murder on the Orient Express-or any number of adaptations of novels by the grande dame of murder mysteries, Agatha Christie-both of which the director cited as influences via a 2019 Twitter thread of movie posters."
So naturally there was going to be a sequel... or two. Lionsgate originally took on the project, but in 2021 Netflix won a bidding war for the rights to the film plus a second sequel, beating out both Amazon and Apple with a whopping $469 million bid. Johnson wrote the script for Glass Onion during the pandemic, inspired particularly by the Christie-based "tropical getaway" whodunnit Evil Under the Sun (1982), as well as a 1973 film called The Last of Sheila-an underappreciated gem.