In the same theater, in the same Saturday time slot, where "Knives Out" premiered in 2019, this year's Toronto International Film Festival unveiled "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' the latest film from writer-director Rian Johnson.
Before the film began, Johnson — who earned an Oscar nomination for original screenplay for "Knives Out," which came into TIFF with positive buzz but exploded into a sleeper hit when it was released two months later — exhorted the enthusiastic crowd with, "Are you guys ready to have a good time? Are you ready for a fun whodunit?"
The sequel is crammed with mysteries within mysteries — even who dies might be a bigger surprise than who the killer is and we wouldn't dare spoil any it. What can be said is that the film is set very specifically in the early days of the pandemic in 2020 as eccentric tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) invites a group of old friends to his private island for a weekend-long murder mystery party. Almost immediately things do not go as planned. Also attending are characters played by Dave Bautista, Madelyn Cline, Daniel Craig, Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monae and Leslie Odom Jr.
