Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The second Benoit Blanc mystery transports Daniel Craig's detective to tech billionaire Miles Bron's private Greek island. Production designer Rick Heinrichs — who treated the titular glass onion structure like a literal onion, cutting models apart to study its layers — built the massive set first in plywood in the UK, disassembled and trucked it to Serbia, had the plywood cut into glass by a specialist company, then reassembled everything on a Belgrade soundstage. Exteriors were filmed at the Amanzoe Resort on Porto Heli, Greece. Cinematographer Steve Yedlin shot with ARRI Alexa Mini LF and Zeiss Supreme Primes, steering the Greek daylight away from harsh pounding sun toward an inviting sun-baked look despite compressed schedules. A complex lighthouse rig for the film-noir climax required an interdepartmental engineering effort that began on Yedlin's first prep day. Part of Netflix's landmark $469 million deal for two Knives Out sequels.