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Dec 23, 2022 · Glass Onion: Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn. Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Rian Johnson
- 2022-12-23
Glass Onion writer-director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig talk about evolving the world's greatest detective into a new Knives Out mystery, while co-stars Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe and ...
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- Netflix: Behind the Streams
Glass Onion's Daniel Craig on Knives Out, Chris Evans and Doctor Strange 2 rumours - YouTube. Watch Becoming... Benoit Blanc in full on BBC iPlayer in the UK: https://bbc.in/3VknGP8Daniel...
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- BBC Radio 1
World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends. Watch trailers & learn more.
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Early Years
Very little is known about Blanc's history. He comes from the southern United States, and his father worked as a detective, but has since retired.
Career
Blanc has long been regarded as an incredibly famous detective due to the number of high-profile mysteries he has investigated. He's solved many cases in his life, including a case with a tennis champion involved (mentioned by Joni Thrombey) and the murder of a ballet dancer (mentioned by Claire Debella). One day, an anonymous envelope was sent to Blanc's apartment. Inside of it was a stack of cash and a news clipping of Harlan Thrombey's death. This prompts him to ask the police and Trooper...
Blanc is considered to be "The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths" and in many ways he fits that title. He's flamboyant, practical, gentlemanly, somewhat eccentric, but incredibly clever, intelligent, and overall a good detective. Blanc also speaks like a member of the Southern aristocracy with an accent that has been described by Ransom Drysdale as a "...
Blanc is middle-aged man with pale skin, short greying hair, and very distinct bright blue eyes. He has a very sharp taste in fashion, as in both movies he dresses well and appropriately for where he is. In Knives Out, he wears the same mismatched suit every day with a charcoal hopsack wool jacket and warm grey trousers, along with various pale col...
Blanc's most defining trait is arguably his accent, derisively called a "Kentucky Fried Foghorn Leghorn Drawl" by Ransom. The screenplay for Knives Outcalled for "[...] the gentlest southern lilt y...At one point, Rian Johnson mulled having Blanc inexplicably speak in a different accent in each film.Similar to the character Columbo (of whom Rian Johnson is a professed fan), Blanc's overall demeanor and way of speaking is as much a character quirk as it is a tool, as Blanc often relies on the s...Following the reveal of Blanc's partner Phillip in Glass Onion, Rian Johnson confirmed that Blanc is gay during the London Film Festival. According to Johnson, Blanc's sexuality had been in his min...Jun 10, 2024 · Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc is sporting a new look in the third Knives Out movie! On Monday, June 10, writer and director Rian Johnson shared a first look photo of Craig's character in...
Oct 16, 2022 · Much like the titular knives of the film franchise, Daniel Craig 's Benoit Blanc is out. At a press conference at the London Film Festival, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery director Rian...
