A Knives Out Thriller’ Closes London Movie Competition With Energetic Premiere – Deadline

The 66th London Movie Competition closed Sunday with a energetic screening of Rian Johnson’s homicide thriller sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller.  

Johnson and the movie’s A-list solid, together with Benoit Blanc a.okay.a Daniel Craig, had been all in attendance and carried out a short Q&A onstage following the premiere. 

The screening opened, nonetheless, with an prolonged introduction from BFI CEO Ben Roberts, who paid tribute to outgoing BFI Competition director Tricia Tuttle who leaves the BFI after 5 years accountable for the London Movie Competition and over a decade on the physique total. 

“I do know I communicate on behalf of all of us, you might be only a unbelievable colleague and a very superb individual,” Roberts stated of Tuttle, who got here onstage and was introduced with a bouquet of flowers. 

All through the screening, the London viewers regularly broke out in applause on the movie’s shocking cameos and stunning twists, which Johnson was eager to remind the pageant viewers to guard from individuals but to see the movie. 

“We’re all cool, no spoilers,” he warned earlier than the movie began rolling. 

Throughout the Q&A, Johnson additionally needed to immediate his actors to not spill any of the movie’s twists as their solutions had been being recorded. As a substitute, they sidestepped particular plot factors and mentioned the movie’s themes and the expanded scale of the Knives Out universe. 

Not like the primary Knives Out movie, which was wholly set in and round a New England mansion, Glass Onion is ready in Greece and contains a huge set of high-tech devices, costly yachts, and an enormous real-life piece of glass formed like an onion.  

“All of this began with my love of Agatha Christie and to do what she did with every one in every of her books, which is one thing completely completely different,” Johnson stated. 

“She wasn’t repeating herself each time. She was not solely utilizing new settings and characters but in addition new narratives, tones, and genres. So I would like the viewers to know shifting ahead that that’s what we’re gonna be doing with this.”

Later in the course of the Q&A, Daniel Craig, who returns because the famed detective Benoit Blanc within the movie, praised Johnson for creating the Knives Out universe and stated he would gladly proceed to work with the director. 

“I’d work with him remainder of my life,” Craig stated.

The Q&A ended with Johnson heaping reward on Janelle Monáe, who performs a lead function within the movie and is a vital a part of the movie’s stunning twist. 

“With out saying why, the diploma of problem on this function, and the quantity of labor she put into each scene, I didn’t even admire till I put the entire film collectively and watched it for the primary time,” Johnson stated of Monáe.

He added: “She’s simply extraordinary.”

Glass Onion will probably be launched globally on Netflix on December 23, following a theatrical launch in choose theaters from November 23-29.