Though Daniel Craig he already said goodbye to his most popular character, James Bond, your adventures as southern detective Benoit Blanc are just beginning. At least that seems to indicate the trailer that Netflix presented today of the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mysterythe continuation of Between knives and secrets (whose original English title is Knives Out), which will be available on the platform from December 23. The police comedy will now move to a dreamy Greek island where Blanc will don his best modern Hercules Poirot suit to solve a new murder with multiple suspects in the offing.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), the new film puts Blanc back at the center of the scene of a group with as many secrets as bad intentions and a suspicious death that he will have to unravel. Ever since the sequel to the 2019 hit film for which Johnson received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay was announced, the roster of actors involved in it has gotten more impressive and varied week by week. Thus, in the advance that was released this Monday, they appear alongside Craig, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn and Edward Norton, who plays millionaire Miles Bron, the host of a party which will end quite badly.
Of course, beyond the images of the trailer, the film that was presented at the Toronto film festival last September and a few days ago closed the London film show, promises other stellar appearances: the cast also includes Ethan Hawke and Hugh Grant, plus Serena Williams, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Natasha Lyonne, and the composer Stephen Sondheim (died November last year), who according to the production description played themselves.
Although little is known about the plot of the film, what is clear thanks to the advance is that beyond the change of location and cast, the new story will maintain the humorous tone and some of the ridicule of the first, in addition to the turns of the script that They made it a great success for critics and the public. Of course, that very success made the experience of making the sequel quite a demanding exercise for Johnson and his star.
“I spent fifteen years of my life trying to raise the quality of a movie from the last without it becoming a pastiche, so it’s not something I’m afraid of. If you have the right people and the necessary talent involved in the project, you can avoid falling into repetitions. Rian is a great writer and he’s not interested in doing the same thing over and over again. We don’t want to disappoint the audience either, we want them to enjoy the world we created in the first installment and get hooked on this one,” Craig explained to Empire magazine a few months ago, referring to the five films. Royal Casino, 007 Quantum of Solace, sky fall, 007 Specter Y no time to die, which starred as Bond. A legendary character and almost the opposite of his playful interpretation of Blanc, whom, curiously, the actor will play for the third time in the already announced film of the saga of Knives Out which will be released in 2024, whose exclusive rights Netflix acquired for almost 500 million dollars.
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Daniel Craig leaves James Bond behind and travels to Greece to solve a new mystery