'Knives Out' director takes a stab at tech moguls in 'Glass Onion'

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Director Rian Johnson crafted a Agatha Christie-style whodunit with the 2019 film, “Knives Out.” Now he’s back — with a new film called “Glass Onions” — and this time he's taking aim at the tech billionaires.

The first one is about a family in New England and it's a little closer to the ground. This one, just out of necessity of ... the fact that there's a tech billionaire in the middle of it, it felt like we had to raise our voices a little bit. ... A big part of these movies is trying to connect up with the present moment. ... It gets a little wacky. But to me, that's because this stuff has just been getting progressively wackier over the past however many years.

, the historian who's in some of the Ken Burns documentaries. ... He has, I think, a Mississippi accent, but it's a very honeyed accent. And that's kind of what we aimed for.My whole family loves movies and my dad loved movies and he really worshiped film directors. And so my dad introduced me to Scorsese and showed methrough the lens of,"Here is an artist who is really doing something." And my granddad loved Fellini.

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