Why Is the Second Knives Out Film Titled Glass Onion?

The second installment in Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise features Daniel Craig as Detective Benoit Blanc once

more and a twisty whodunnit murder mystery. But the movie isn't called Knives Out 2—it's titled Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

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So why is the sequel called Glass Onion? First, director Johnson was inspired by a 1968 Beatles song,

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and plays the song over the end credits of the film. "It's kind of a Beatles song about a mystery that's not actually a mystery," Johnson explained to Reuters.

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The song features intentionally confusing lyrics that mean nothing, like "Well here's another clue for you all / The walrus was Paul."

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They also sing "Looking through the bent-backed tulips /To see how the other half live / Looking through the glass onion."

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As John Lennon explained later, "I was having a laugh because there’d been so much gobbledygook about [Sgt. Pepper album]—play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that."

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Johnson wanted the title to include "glass," because the mystery is something hidden in plain sight.

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