Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery launch date is right here. The sequel to writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out will launch December 23 on Netflix, the world’s largest subscription-based video streaming service introduced late Monday. Though you’ll be able to catch Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc previous to that if you’re fortunate. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is ready to premiere in September on the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and might be launched in choose theatres internationally — not in India — in November previous to the Netflix rollout. Netflix is reportedly contemplating a 45-day theatrical window for sure motion pictures, beginning with Glass Onion.

Alongside the December launch date announcement, Netflix has unveiled two new stills from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, one with many of the forged members and the second a behind-the-scenes shot of Johnson. While Netflix is terming it a “first look”, we acquired that again in February to be trustworthy.

In addition to Craig, Glass Onion stars Edward Norton (Fight Club), Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures), Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision), Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami), Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist), Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Kate Hudson (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead), and Ethan Hawke (Before Sunrise). Netflix has additionally revealed that Norton performs tech billionaire Miles Bron on Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Rian Johnson with Janelle Monáe on the units of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Photo Credit: Netflix

And we even have a synopsis for the Knives Out sequel: “When tech billionaire Miles Bron invites some of his nearest and dearest for a getaway on his private Greek island, it soon becomes clear that all is not perfect in paradise. And when someone turns up dead, well, who better than Benoit Blanc to peel back the layers of intrigue?” Johnson teased that Glass Onion would place an even bigger emphasis on Craig’s detective character than the primary movie, and the inspirations behind the Mediterranean setting — the Knives Out sequel is ready in Greece — for his subsequent film.

“You definitely get to know him a little bit better,” Johnson mentioned. “In the first one, because of the way it was structured, Marta, Ana de Armas’ character, was very much the protagonist. In a big way, Blanc was the threat. He was almost the antagonist in terms of just the story structure, because you were worried, even as they got closer, that he was going to catch her and he was going to have to turn her over at the end. So Blanc was always outside of the sphere of our protagonist and was a little bit more of an enigma in the first movie. Whereas, in this one, Blanc gets an invitation to come to this murder mystery on this island. We’re very much meeting these people and getting into this world through his eyes.”

Said Greek island occurs to be the aforementioned billionaire’s playground. To movie it, Johnson landed in Porto Heli, Greece at Amazone’s Villa 20, a nine-bedroom ultra-luxury property that additionally served as a lodge for the ensemble forged and their households. Johnson felt it was the right location and added: “It felt like a summer vacation where we also made a movie.” The completely completely different locale — Knives Out was set in gloomy Massachusetts in a creaky mansion — and the motley of latest characters means Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will really feel completely not like the primary film.

While the primary inspiration for the Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer-director continues to be Agatha Christie — her detective character Hercule Poirot was a part of practically three dozen novels. “Every single time, she found a way into it that felt unique and fresh, and you could tell it was challenging her creatively,” Johnson mentioned — he additionally checked out “tropical getaway murder mystery” movies like 1982’s Evil Under the Sun, and 1973’s The Last of Sheila. In the latter, a bunch of glamorous socialites go on a pleasure cruise which turns bitter. If that sounds loads like Glass Onion, effectively, it’s.

“There are absolutely some very clear inspirations that I took from it,” Johnson mentioned. “First of all, it’s structured around a group of friends, or frenemies, who all have a power dynamic with one of their successful friends. It begins with him sending an invitation for them to come and play this murder mystery game at this exotic locale. In The Last of Sheila, it’s on his yacht, and everything ends up going horribly wrong. That is essentially how Glass Onion begins.”

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is out December 23 on Netflix.