Homicide and thriller are tantalizingly shut as we method the discharge of the film Glass Onion, the follow-up to 2019’s Knives Out. However earlier than you place in your crime-solving hat — or maybe a snazzy Daniel Craig-inspired neckerchief — you will have to know when you may tune in.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller will land in film theaters in late November, a full month earlier than it hits Netflix in late December. Additionally, and this can be a key element, you will have simply seven days to catch a type of theater screenings. Miss these and you will have to endure the blackout interval earlier than the film arrives on the streaming service.
Rian Johnson wrote and directed the sequel, which has a solid that features Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista.
Craig is reprising his position as razor-sharp detective Benoit Blanc.
What’s Glass Onion about?
The sequel sees a bunch of associates collect at a lavish personal property on a Greek island. They vary from a governor to a scientist to a former mannequin and extra. Somebody turns up useless, and the offender might be any of them, in response to Netflix.
Why is it referred to as Glass Onion?
The title pays homage to the 1968 Beatles music Glass Onion, in response to Netflix fan website Tudum. The concept of “glass” got here to director Rian Johnson within the context of touchdown on “an overwrought metaphor” for Craig’s detective Blanc. With that in thoughts, he turned to his music library.
“I will be very trustworthy. I actually received out my iPhone and searched my music library with the phrase glass,” Johnson stated. “The very first thing that got here up, as a result of I am an enormous Beatles fan, is ‘Glass Onion.'”
How do I watch it early in theaters?
The movie will play in theaters for one week, from Nov. 23-29. Netflix stated roughly 600 theaters within the US will present the movie. Tickets are already on sale.
PEOPLE OF TWITTER! Main as much as our large Christmas launch on Netflix, this Thanksgiving GLASS ONION may have a particular one week solely THEATRICAL SNEAK PREVIEW EVENT!! HUGE because of @AMCTheatres @RegalMovies @Cinemark and extra. I’m very, VERY enthusiastic about this.
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 6, 2022
It will debut throughout chains AMC, Regal and Cinemark, in addition to at different theaters within the US and internationally, together with Canada, the UK, Eire, Italy, Germany, Spain, Israel, Australia and New Zealand, in response to the streaming service.
When does it hit Netflix?
The homicide thriller will begin streaming Dec. 23.
