The first teaser trailer for the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, briefly introduces the key players who’ll be interacting with Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc. The minute-and-a-half teaser trailer features a message from writer/director Rian Johnson inviting audiences to put together the pieces as snippets of Kate Hudson dancing, Dave Bautista in a speedo, and Kathryn Hahn screaming play.
The sequel’s cast also includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, and Madelyn Cline.
Filmmaker Rian Johnson described crafting the story in an interview with Netflix’s TUDUM.
“The phrase I kept coming back to and talking about the first movie is, ‘It’s a roller coaster and not a crossword puzzle,’” stated Johnson. “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 will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival and will have a limited run in theaters before launching on Netflix on December 23, 2022.
Netflix released this very basic synopsis for the new Knives Out film:
“In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.”
