![]() The US director and writer of the Knives Out films, Rian Johnson, described Glass Onion optimistically as “an equal, not a sequel” at its London premiere, but this second film is no sedate drawing-room puzzle. Kathryn Hahn, Madelyn Cline, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr and Kate Hudson in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. A playful twist on the classic format, this mystery revolved around Christie’s long-running West End play The Mousetrap, and in the film’s denouement, its detective team, in the shape of police officers Saoirse Ronan and Sam Rockwell, actually encounter Christie herself, played by Shirley Henderson. Glass Onion – its title is taken from a Beatles song and from the transparent dome structure that dominates the film’s island location – comes out just months after Branagh’s stellar lineup of actors sailed downriver together in the second of his Christie remakes, Death on the Nile.Īnd in September British cinema audiences turned out in large numbers for See How They Run. It showed that people still want murder mysteries, and Netflix, among others, has picked up the idea quickly.” ![]() Fox did something amazing when it put in all that money. “It all changed with Kenneth Branagh and his Murder on the Orient Express. “This kind of drama is a global phenomenon now,” said James Prichard, chairman and chief executive of Agatha Christie Ltd and the author’s great-grandson. ![]() ![]() Daniel Craig reprises his role as detective Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. ![]()
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