‘Glass Onion’ on Netflix: Ending Defined, Movie star Cameos, Burning Questions

Warning: Spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller forward.

After a temporary stint in theaters again in November, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller is streaming now on Netflix (learn our full evaluate right here). And this onion is not making many individuals cry. As of Wednesday, Glass Onion is the highest film on the streaming service, and it is earned a “common acclaim” ranking on Metacritic and a licensed recent ranking of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Listed below are solutions to a few of the questions individuals are asking in regards to the movie, its twist-filled ending and the celeb cameos and different Easter eggs dropped alongside the way in which.

Glass Onion ending defined

Right here come the spoilers. 

In a really Agatha Christie setup, a bunch of mates collect on an remoted Greek island for a weekend getaway. They’re staying at a mansion with a domed glass high dubbed the Glass Onion. 

Elon Musk-esque billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) has referred to as the group of previous mates collectively, supposedly to resolve his personal homicide, however someway detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) has finagled an invitation. Blanc foils the faux homicide Miles had arrange for himself, after which the true murders seem to start. Gun-toting Duke (Dave Bautista) drinks from Miles’ glass and dies shortly thereafter. And Miles’ former enterprise companion Andi (Janelle Monae) seems to have been shot. (Besides the bullet lodged in a journal she was carrying in a entrance and he or she’s positive.)

However it is a twisty movie, and viewers quickly study Andi died earlier than the island getaway, supposedly by suicide. Her twin sister, Helen, nonetheless, is satisfied the demise concerned foul play. So she retains her sister’s demise underneath wraps and goes on the journey pretending to be her twin to attempt to dig deeper and clear up the homicide. She hires Blanc to fake he was given an invite and are available alongside. 

Seems everybody had a motive to kill Andi. She and Miles began a tech firm, Alpha, based mostly on a enterprise technique Andi sketched on a serviette at their favourite bar, the Glass Onion. Miles copied the serviette sketch and pretended it was his concept, and the others all lied in courtroom to help his declare as a result of he was serving to them financially. However a while later, Andi discovered her unique serviette sketch, which not like the copy, has the Glass Onion’s brand on its serviette, proving hers was the unique. She stupidly alerted all the chums to her discover, so technically, all of them had a purpose to need her useless (since all of them lied in courtroom, a truth that would critically injury their reputations if it will get out). 

The killer finally ends up being Miles, in fact, who offed his ex-partner and tried to make it seem like a suicide. Duke later advised Miles he knew in regards to the homicide, and that explains why Miles killed him — by placing pineapple juice, one thing Duke’s allergic to, in his drink. (Apparently reactions to pineapple allergy symptoms can certainly be lethal.)

Miles manages to burn the all essential serviette, prompting an outraged “Andi” (who’s actually Helen) to interrupt all his glass statues, with the opposite friends who secretly hate and resent Miles finally becoming a member of within the destruction-fest. Alpha’s huge new product is a hydrogen gasoline referred to as Klear, and Miles is pushing it regardless of understanding it is harmful. Andi left the corporate over this. Blanc offers the revenge-minded Helen a bit of Klear, and he or she blows up the Glass Onion with it. 

Which would not be as huge of a deal besides Miles has someway rented the Mona Lisa from Paris’ Louvre, claiming the museum was closed resulting from COVID-19, and “France wanted cash” (sure, that is how wealthy he’s). The museum insisted the portray be behind fireproof glass, however Miles put in an override. Helen hits the override and all of us get to look at the world’s most well-known art work soften. The final scene reveals police boats streaming towards the island as all the opposite friends vow to activate Miles, now uncovered as a double-murderer and the person who destroyed the Mona Lisa. 

Glass Onion celeb cameos

The solid is fairly star-studded, with Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn, Norton and Craig among the many solid. However there are some enjoyable cameos to look at for. 

‘Amongst Us’ celeb name

Early on, Blanc is seen within the tub taking part in the sport Amongst Us with 4 buddies through a web based name. These buddies aren’t simply common individuals, they’re actress Angela Lansbury, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, composer Stephen Sondheim and actress Natasha Lyonne. (Sadly, Lansbury and Sondheim have died because the film was filmed.)

Serena Williams

Hey, if Miles can afford to hire the Mona Lisa on this world, he may also afford to maintain tennis icon Serena Williams on name as his digital private coach. She reveals up on a giant video display and tries to get Blanc to work out.

Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant does not have a giant function, however he is seen briefly as somebody who solutions the door at Blanc’s place (companion? buddy?). Like many others, he apparently spent the pandemic within the kitchen baking.

Yo-Yo Ma

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma seems early on as a visitor at a wild, chichi occasion. His musical information helps Kate Hudson’s character, Birdie, determine the best way to clear up the puzzle field that accommodates her island invitation from Bron. 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is heard, however not seen. Miles has a clock of some type that asserts a musical “bong!” each hour, and Gordon-Levitt voices the phrase. 

Ethan Hawke

Actor Ethan Hawke has a quick and odd scene as one among Bron’s workers. He squirts a magical COVID-19 preventative (or one thing?) into every visitor’s mouth earlier than they board a ship to go to the island, permitting them to take off their masks, and liberating up the plot from having to the touch on pandemic precautions. Nonetheless, there are many references to the “pando,” and the way it’s saved everybody indoors for a lot too lengthy. 

The place was the movie shot?

Bron takes his mates to his supposed “non-public island” in Greece. Manufacturing designer Rick Heinrichs advised Conde Nast Traveler  these scenes have been shot at a luxurious resort referred to as Amanzoe, situated close to Porto Heli, with different scenes filmed on the Greek island of Spetses. (Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2021 film The Misplaced Daughter was additionally shot on Spetses.)

The movie’s opening occasion scene was shot in Belgrade, Serbia, the movie’s costume designer, Jenny Eagan, advised Males’s Well being. And Heinrichs confirmed Serbia acquired quite a lot of Glass Onion love, saying, “Something set in New York or the Northeast was created in Serbia.”

Can wealthy individuals actually hire the Mona Lisa?

Within the movie, Miles Bron pays huge bucks to Paris’ Louvre Museum to borrow the famed Mona Lisa portray. The five hundred-year-old masterpiece has certainly left the Louvre at numerous occasions, although not on the whim of a wealthy man who wished to hold it in his Greek pleasure palace. 

Throughout World Conflict II, the French moved it round to quite a lot of locations to guard it from the Nazis. Earlier than that, in 1911, it was stolen, solely to be discovered when one of many thieves tried to promote it.

The Mona Lisa additionally was exhibited in Washington DC and New York in 1962 on the request of then-First Girl Jacqueline Kennedy. It final left the museum 

In 2019, the director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, mentioned the museum wouldn’t embrace the portray in a touring exhibition of France’s masterpieces as a result of it’s simply too fragile. 

However the portray does have a really protecting setup, similar to it does in Glass Onion. Since 2005, it has been hanging inside a temperature-controlled field, behind bullet-proof glass.

Glass Onion ice cream really exists

No, actually. Van Leeuwen Ice Cream made a Glass Onion ice cream taste. (You should buy it on-line to be shipped to you with dry ice.) The flavour honors the movie by mixing vanilla ice cream with Greek yogurt for the Greek setting, honeycomb sweet for a glassy crunch, and a swirl of bourbon caramelized onion jam. I’ve sampled it, and whereas the onion scent is instantly upsetting, the cooked-in onions are so candy that it is … virtually OK?

The Beatles connection to Glass Onion

Within the movie, “glass onion” refers back to the big glass dome on Miles Bron’s Greek mansion. Beatles followers, in fact, know the title as a 1968 tune from the band’s well-known White Album. Johnson knew he wished a title referring to glass, and advised Deadline that when he searched the phrase “glass” in his telephone’s music app, the Beatles’ Glass Onion confirmed up, and he was impressed. The tune performs over the closing credit.

“However I used to be at all times stunned, after I was displaying the script round, how many individuals did not comprehend it was a Beatles tune,” Johnson mentioned. “I believed everyone knew Glass Onion, however I suppose they do not.”

There’s one other Beatles reference. In Bron’s first scene, he is making an attempt to play the band’s tune Blackbird on the guitar, and claims the instrument he is utilizing is the one on which Paul McCartney wrote that tune. He then hugs Birdie and tosses the guitar carelessly to the seaside whereas she seems horrified. 

Will there be a Glass Onion sequel?

Glass Onion itself is a sequel of types. Daniel Craig’s detective character, Benoit Blanc, first appeared in 2019’s Knives Out, although the remainder of the solid is new. Netflix purchased two sequels to Knives Out, so anticipate one other Blanc detective movie, most likely with a wholly new solid, to point out up finally. Director Rian Johnson advised Deadline he is aware of he’ll must preserve the franchise recent and never simply rehash the primary two movies. There isn’t any launch date or title but.