Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is centred around the character Miles Bron (Edward Norton), a tech billionaire who has a fancy island, a love of grand gestures and a desire to plough ahead with his ideas despite the experts around him telling him no.
The film's release has come at a time when Elon Musk has come under some criticism following his takeover of Twitter, and fans have been quick to draw parallels between Bron and Musk.
Although the film was written and filmed before the Twitter takeover, Musk has had plenty of 'eccentric' moments over the years, so fans have been wondering if he is the inspiration for the character.
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In a lengthy interview with Wired, director Rian Johnson admitted that Bron was based on the kind of tech billionaire that Musk is, but not specifically on Musk alone.
"There’s a lot of general stuff about that sort of species of tech billionaire that went directly into it," he explained. "But obviously, it has almost a weird relevance in exactly the current moment. A friend of mine said, 'Man, that feels like it was written this afternoon.' And that’s just sort of a horrible, horrible accident, you know?"
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He called the timing of the film's release coinciding with all this Twitter drama "so weird" and "very bizarre", joking that: "I hope there isn’t some secret marketing department at Netflix that’s funding this Twitter takeover."
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He also explained that as soon as he landed on a tech billionaire as his main suspect, the other character archetypes/professions easily fell into place.
"The intent was to accurately reflect what it’s been like to have our heads in the middle of the cultural sphere for the past six years," he added. "It’s a pretty nightmarish kind of carnival."
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is out now on Netflix.
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