‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ to Premiere At TIFF 2022

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced today that Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will have its world premiere at the 2022 edition of the Film Festival. No details on a specific date for the premiere have been given, but it’s certainly exciting news considering the fact that Knives Out also had its world premiere at TIFF in 2019.

The sequel will release on Netflix later this year. Written and directed by Johnson, it will star Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista and Ethan Hawke.

The press release, in part is below:

TORONTO — TIFF is thrilled to announce that Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will make its festival debut with a world premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.

In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s 2019 Knives Out, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline with Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista. Written and directed by Rian Johnson and produced alongside his partner Ram Bergman under their T-Street banner, the film will release globally on Netflix this Holiday Season.

Source: TIFF (Press release)