‘Glass Onion’ Director Rian Johnson Laments Film Having ‘Knives Out’ In Title
Rian Johnson There is a lot of interest in the creation Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery And he said he was sad about the film being made. Knives Out In its title.
Johnson worked hard to create a sequel for his 2019 smash. Knives Out This would be a standalone story, with Benoit Blanc as the only character who crosses over from the previous film.
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“I’ve tried hard to make them self-contained. Honestly, I’m pissed off that we have Mystery: Knives Out in the title,” Johnson told The Atlantic Interview. “I want it to just be called Glass Onion.”
Johnson added, “I get it, and I want everyone who liked the first movie to know this is next in the series, but also, the whole appeal to me is it’s a new novel off the shelf every time. But there’s a gravity of a thousand suns toward serialized storytelling.”
The filmmaker, who also directed and wrote 2017’s Star Wars: The Last JediThe second film in a trilogy, it was also the last.
“In terms of the Star Wars I gave it an awful ending in the movie I made. I love endings so much that even doing the middle chapter of the trilogy, I tried to give it an ending,” he explained. “A good ending that recontextualizes everything that came before it and makes it a beautiful object unto itself—that’s what makes a movie a movie. It feels like there’s less and less of that. The whole idea of creating is a poisonous one. [intellectual property] This has penetrated into the very foundations of storytelling. Everyone is only thinking. How do we keep milking it? I love an ending where you burn the Viking boat into the sea.”
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