Hollywood star Daniel Craig is set to return as sleuth Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel, Out Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
The whodunit thriller, directed by Rian Johnson, will be released on Netflix by the end of 2022, the OTT platform tweeted on June 13.
The trailer announcement captioned ‘In Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ follow-up, detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of suspects’ has received more than 3 lakh views on YouTube since Monday.
Johnson also took to social media announcing his upcoming project: “Something I love about Agatha Christie is how she never tread water creatively. I think there’s a misperception that her books use the same formula over and over, but fans know the opposite is true. It wasn’t just settings or murder methods, she was constantly stretching the genre conceptually. Under the umbrella of a whodunnit she wrote spy thrillers, proto-slasher horrors, serial killer hunts, gothic romances, psychological character studies, glam travelogues. When I made Knives Out, that’s what excited me about the prospect of making more mysteries with Daniel as Benoit Blanc - to emulate Christie and have every film be like a whole new book, with its own tone, ambition, reason for being… and (ta dah) title. Benoit Blanc’s next case, the follow up to Knives Out, is called GLASS ONION. Very excited to share more soon.”
Filmed in Greece, the project also stars Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick, Dave Bautista and Madeline Clyne. Nathan Johnson has composed the music of the film.
