Glass Onion is not not about Elon Musk, says Rian Johnson
Although Rian Johnson says he didn't directly base Edward Norton's Miles off of the Tesla founder, he admits Musk's antics give Glass Onion a "weird relevance"

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Edward Norton in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Image: NETFLIX
If Edward Norton’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’s character Miles—a tech-bro billionaire who loves fancy toys, expensive homes, and his own too-big-to-fail ideas—looks familiar, well…
According to director Rian Johnson, the man-child at the center of Glass Onion’s murder mystery isn’t based on Twitter’s tech-bro-in-chief, Elon Musk— but the timing of Musk’s rise at Twitter draws a clear comparison. When asked in a recent conversation with WIRED’s Angela Watercutter if he would ever make a Knives Out-style mystery about the downfall of Twitter, he responded with a laugh: “Didn’t I just do that?”