Glass Onion Director Rian Johnson Laments Films ‘Knives Out’ At Title – Deadline

Rian Johnson Opens up about creating Glass Onion: Takes the mystery out of the cutlery He said he regretted the existence of the film Take out the knives in his address.

Johnson has been trying hard to make a sequel to his 2019 hit Take out the knives This will be her standalone story, with only Detective Benoit Blanc voicing from the first film.

“I tried so hard to make it self-sufficient. Honestly, I’m mad that we have Puzzle brings out the knives in the title,” Johnson said Atlantic Ocean in an interview. “I just want to be called out glass onion. ”

I get that, Johnson added, “and I want everyone who loved the first movie to know that this is the next in the series, but also, the whole appeal for me is that it’s a new novel on the shelf every time. But there’s a thousand suns appeal to sequential storytelling.” “.

Director, who also directed and wrote 2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedialso tried to give an ending to the film despite it being the second film of a trilogy.

“from where star Wars A movie I did, I tried to make it a hell of a ending. I love endings so much that even while doing the middle chapter of the trilogy, I tried to give it an ending,” he explained. “A good ending rehashes everything that came before it and makes it a beautiful thing in its own right — that’s what makes a movie a movie. There seems to be less and less of it. This toxic idea of ​​creation [intellectual property] has seeped entirely into the bedrock of storytelling. everyone just thinks, How do we continue to milk it? I love the ending where you burn a Viking boat at sea.”