The next film in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series is Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. In the follow-up to Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.
Rian Johnson is directing and writing the latest chapter of the whodunit mystery. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as Detective Benoit Blanc, a dashing detective with a nose for details. He’s joined by an all-star ensemble cast including Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, Janelle Monae, Jessica Henwick, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Edward Norton, and Madelyn Cline.
Netflix acquired the exclusive rights to the whodunit franchise in 2021. It was initially said that the deal was in the $400-$450 million range, but the final number came out to $469 million, which is positively wild. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, and producer Ram Bergman are looking to walk away with “upwards of $100 million”…each! “Yes, it’s overpaying but Netflix is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers,” a Netflix executive told THR at the time. “It takes a proven theatrical commodity off the board and puts it in their pocket. And it’s another way they re-educate audiences to think of streaming and their company above a studio.” The deal doesn’t have many stipulations as it gives Rian Johnson complete creative control and means that he won’t have to take any notes from Netflix, but it does say that Daniel Craig must star in the sequels and that they must have at least the budget of the original film, which cost somewhere in the realm of $40 million. I don’t think that will be a problem.
What do you think about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as the title of the next chapter of the Knives Out film series? Are you excited to join Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc for an island getaway that becomes a dangerous game of cat and mouse? Is Blanc ready to match wits with a new group of shady suspects? Will he solve the case wearing board shorts and a sun hat? Only time will tell. Speaking of time, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is coming to Netflix later this year, during the holiday season.