The first images have arrived from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the new Netflix murder mystery in which Janelle Monáe stars alongside Daniel Craig and Edward Norton. Check out the cast above and, below, Monáe working with director Rian Johnson. The film, which follows 2019’s Knives Out (and is billed as a follow-up rather than a sequel), will premiere in select theaters before arriving at Netflix on December 23.
The film’s title is, of course, a reference to the Beatles song, as Johnson explained in a new interview: “I’m always fishing for something fun that Blanc can grab onto as an overwrought metaphor that he can beat to death. This is all in plain sight from the very start. So, the idea of glass came to me, something that’s clear. I’ll be very honest. I literally got out my iPhone and searched my music library with the word ‘glass.’ There’s got to be some good glass songs. I was like, ‘Oh, is it a glass fortress? Is it a glass castle? Is it a glass man?’ The first thing that came up, because I’m a huge Beatles fan, is ‘Glass Onion.’”
Also starring in the film are Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.
Monáe last appeared on-screen in the 2020 movie Antebellum. She also starred in the second season of the Amazon series Homecoming. Her album Dirty Computer arrived in 2018.
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