In the first trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, deadly games are afoot in a tropical paradise.
After teasing the Knives Out sequel with a first-look image, Netflix dropped its first major footage Thursday from the Agatha Christie-inspired follow-up from writer-director Rian Johnson. The movie promises the return of Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc, who travels to Greece to unravel a mystery featuring a whole new cast of colorful suspects played by some of Hollywood’s biggest names.
Unlike its dark-wooded, old-money mansion mystery predecessor, the minute-and-a-half trailer for Glass Onion promises a more tropical whodunit that sees the movie’s colorful cast of characters face danger at every turn after joining each other on a yacht-to-island getaway where everyone is a potential suspect.
That includes a gun-wielding Dave Bautista, a glass-smashing Janelle Monáe, an absolutely shocked Kathryn Hahn and a hip-thrusting Kate Hudson.
“Lock the doors. Stay in your rooms,” Craig’s Blanc says. “Everyone is in danger.”
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In an interview with Netflix’s TUDUM, Johnson expounded on how what makes the genre so compelling for him and audiences.
“The phrase I kept coming back to and talking about the first movie is, ‘It’s a roller coaster and not a crossword puzzle,’” Johnson says. “It’s a common mistake in writing whodunits, thinking that you’re making a crossword puzzle, and that the fun is that the audience is actually going to analyze all this and figure it out. I know when I’m reading or watching a whodunit, I always let go of the notion of figuring it out about a third of the way through it.”
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery‘s full cast includes Craig, Hudson, Monáe, Bautista, Hahn, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline. Johnson is producing alongside Ram Bergman.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is set to release globally on Netflix Dec. 23 and in select theaters at a date to be announced later.
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