Glass Onion's Big Twist was 'a challenge' for Rian Johnson to complete

Speaking about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, director Rian Johnson talked about the film's big twist and how he went about it.

Halfway through Glass Onion, it is revealed that Andi is not Andi at all, but rather her identical twin Helen pretending to be Andi. At Benoit Blanc's suggestion, Helen impersonates Andi to prove that Miles Bron killed her twin. Johnson says he "was kicked and screamed" into the twins concept.

“I guess the main thing was that he couldn't just see it from a different angle. repeating all the different scenes," Johnson told The Wrap. "That's what led to the idea of ​​twins. During the process I was dragged kicking and screaming at identical twins. I didn't want to do it, it felt like an awful trope, and just, "Will the audience ever forgive me for this?" [laughs]. But I think we get away with it because it's not like a reveal at the end of 'Aha! It was a twin! It's a complication in the middle that leads to a deepening of the issues and the story. So I think that's why we get away with it."

Johnson also talked about how to make sure the lengthy flashback sequence that reveals the Andi/Helen twist was worth watching, even if the audience had already seen the events depicted.

“That way the biggest risk actually becomes skipping the first half of the movie without it. It's like we play the first movie for half without introducing Marta,” Johnson said. “Which scared me the most is that the audience is going to stick with this terrible group of people until the point where we actually give you someone you care about when we introduce Helen? That was kind of a trial and error calibration of how many times do you rehearse? How much will the audience stick to seeing things play out again? Lots of things that pacing is just kind of the patient work that goes into any other movie, but the math is slightly different, because the fact that we're going through the second time around now plays into the audience experience as well." < /p>

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is again written and directed by Rian Johnson, who produced the film with Ram Bergman through their T-Street Productions banner. The sequel follows Daniel Craig's Detective Benoit Blanc as he travels to Greece to uncover the layers of a mystery involving a colorful new group of suspects.

Joining Craig are Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Edward Norton (Fight Club), Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures), Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision), Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Jessica Henwick (Love and Monsters) and Ethan Hawke (Sinister).