The director says pressure to create ‘serialized storytelling’ prevented him from using the title he wanted.

“Honestly, I’m pissed off that we haveA Knives Out Mysteryin the title.

I want it to just be calledGlass Onion.

Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery

Daniel Craig in ‘Glass Onion’.Netflix

But there’s a gravity of a thousand suns toward serialized storytelling.”

It feels like there’s less and less of that.

This whole poisonous idea of creating [intellectual property] has completely seeped into the bedrock of storytelling.

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