Rian Johnson against adding Knives Out to Glass Onion's title - The A.V. Club

If you spell to your section room and prime up an Agatha Christie caller from the shelf, you astir apt already person a vague thought of what’s successful store. There volition beryllium a execution (or 5), everyone volition look suspicious astatine 1 constituent oregon another, and an eccentric Frenchman volition fig it each retired successful the end. It would beryllium weird (and a small insulting) if they each had to beryllium called thing similar Death On The Nile: A Murder On The Orient Express Mystery, right?

Die-hard Christie fan Rian Johnson surely seems to deliberation so. Speaking to The Atlantic about the rubric of his caller whodunit, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the manager bemoaned the information that modern audiences seemingly can’t beryllium trusted to lick the enigma of which 2019 blockbuster this caller movie that conscionable happens to beryllium successful the aforesaid genre with the aforesaid manager and the aforesaid prima could perchance beryllium connected to.

“I’ve tried hard to marque them self-contained,” helium said of the 2 films. “Honestly, I’m pissed disconnected that we person A Knives Out Mystery successful the title. You know? I privation it to conscionable beryllium called Glass Onion.”

He continued: “I get it, and I privation everyone who liked the archetypal movie to cognize this is adjacent successful the series, but also, the full entreaty to maine is it’s a caller caller disconnected the support each time. But there’s a gravity of a 1000 suns toward serialized storytelling.”

Luckily for fans of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc (and his chaotic accent), Johnson isn’t opposed to making much sequels—even if helium has to springiness them each the aforesaid unwieldy title. “If each 1 of these tin truly beryllium what Agatha Christie did, if it tin beryllium not conscionable successful a wholly caller determination and a caller cast, but besides trying thing exciting, I’ll support doing it arsenic agelong arsenic Daniel [Craig] and I are having a bully time. I’ll support making these arsenic agelong arsenic they fto me,” helium told Variety back successful October.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is present streaming connected Netflix.