Rian Johnson Addresses Speculation That 'Glass Onion' Tech Mogul Is Supposed To Be Elon Musk
In "Glass Onion," the thrilling sequel to 2019's "Knives Out," Edward Norton stars as Miles Bron, a tech billionaire who invites all his successful and slightly sycophant friends to an island in Greece for a fun getaway . Miles is extremely rich and full of original ideas. we learn when we meet his employee Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.) that some of his recent concepts include "Uber for biospheres", "AI in dogs = speech", and "child = NFT". "Genius always looks like madness at first," Lionel told worried investors, and it's obvious the whole band, if not the whole world, believes that about Miles. His company Alpha, we learn, owns many others, including Alpha Cosmos, Alpha Car, Alpha Shop.
For anyone paying attention to the news, Miles might seem a bit familiar. He could look a lot like Elon Musk. And at the end of "Glass Onion" (*spoiler alert*), master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) reveals that Miles isn't a tech genius at all; he just built his name on the backs of others, which is also a common criticism of Musk.
Writer and director Rian Johnson wondered if Miles was actually based on Musk, and the answer is a little complicated. Speaking to Wired in a Dec. 23 interview, he explained, "There's a lot of general stuff about this kind of tech billionaire kind of thing that went straight into it." Musk was an inspiration, but not the inspiration. But Johnson admitted it was strange to have created this film long before Musk acquired Twitter but to release it while it was in the middle of the air.
"It's so weird. It's very weird. I hope there's no secret marketing department at Netflix funding this Twitter takeover," Johnson said. In the same interview, he explained: "A friend of mine said, 'Man, it looks like it was written this afternoon.' And it's just some kind of horrible, horrible accident, you know?"
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In "Glass Onion," the thrilling sequel to 2019's "Knives Out," Edward Norton stars as Miles Bron, a tech billionaire who invites all his successful and slightly sycophant friends to an island in Greece for a fun getaway . Miles is extremely rich and full of original ideas. we learn when we meet his employee Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.) that some of his recent concepts include "Uber for biospheres", "AI in dogs = speech", and "child = NFT". "Genius always looks like madness at first," Lionel told worried investors, and it's obvious the whole band, if not the whole world, believes that about Miles. His company Alpha, we learn, owns many others, including Alpha Cosmos, Alpha Car, Alpha Shop.
For anyone paying attention to the news, Miles might seem a bit familiar. He could look a lot like Elon Musk. And at the end of "Glass Onion" (*spoiler alert*), master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) reveals that Miles isn't a tech genius at all; he just built his name on the backs of others, which is also a common criticism of Musk.
Writer and director Rian Johnson wondered if Miles was actually based on Musk, and the answer is a little complicated. Speaking to Wired in a Dec. 23 interview, he explained, "There's a lot of general stuff about this kind of tech billionaire kind of thing that went straight into it." Musk was an inspiration, but not the inspiration. But Johnson admitted it was strange to have created this film long before Musk acquired Twitter but to release it while it was in the middle of the air.
"It's so weird. It's very weird. I hope there's no secret marketing department at Netflix funding this Twitter takeover," Johnson said. In the same interview, he explained: "A friend of mine said, 'Man, it looks like it was written this afternoon.' And it's just some kind of horrible, horrible accident, you know?"
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