Screen Rant joined several other outlets in a roundtable discussion with GlassOnion filmmaker rianjohnson and star JanelleMonae about creating a fun and fantastic mystery, and the future of the KnivesOut franchise as a whole:
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sees Rian Johnson return to write and direct a sequel to the acclaimed Knives Out, with only Daniel Craig returning from the original cast. While Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has big shoes to fill, but a new mystery and astonishing sets rise to the occasion. This is aided by a stellar cast of new faces for the second movie, including Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., and even more.
Janelle Monáe: For me, it starts with the script, and I think what Rian wrote was just remarkable, and so appetizing for me to sink my teeth into. Just delicious; a big, delicious bite, from start to finish. And especially with the character, when I read what Rian was considering me for, I just knew. I was like, "We're gonna have fun. We're gonna go on a ride as a character because there's so much there, and I love everything on the page.
Rian Johnson: Growing up and loving whodunits from an early age, it starts for me with Agatha Christie. I loved her books growing up. I loved the movies that were made of her books growing up: Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, The Peter Ustinov Poirot movies... That was my jam when I was a kid. First and foremost, it's just an incredibly fun genre. There's nothing not fun about it.
Janelle Monáe: Oh, yeah. Speaking of what Rian was saying, just about how you bring the elements of the people, the star-studded cast on this private island in Greece, and you write a murder mystery? That within itself is just fun. And getting a chance to do action, and do the comedy, and do the drama was just a very transformative experience.
Rian Johnson: It certainly wasn’t meant to skirt anything, but it wasn’t driven by COVID in particular. It was just kind of the way the scene was written. It’s the delight of connecting up that moment, when you come back to it halfway through, with the moment from the beginning was kind of the idea of it. I felt like having Blanc be gay and have a partner just felt like a very natural thing coming out of the first movie.
When you write something like Glass Onion, do you feel like you have to go to a darker, different place? What’s the process for that?
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