Netflix’s Glass Onion Getting Rian Johnson’s Director’s Commentary

Rian Johnson will peel back the layers of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery in a special director’s commentary coming to Netflix.

The official Glass Onion Twitter account uprooted the news and shared a poster advertising the extra feature. According to the post and its timings, the director’s commentary will be available to stream on Netflix from 10 am PT on Thursday, February 23.

I keep returning, in my mind, to the Glass Onion…

Tomorrow. 10 am PT. #GlassOnionIsBack ? pic.twitter.com/8e04gHdXOi

— Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (@KnivesOut) February 23, 2023

Rian Johnson also shared the news with his 1 million followers by quote-retweeting the original announcement and adding his own message. In his tweet, he wrote: “COMMENTARY TRACK APPROACHES! Sorry it took a minute but it’s a good one I think.”

The director’s commentary comes exactly two months after Glass Onion debuted on Netflix. The film reportedly broke the Nielsen streaming record in the U.S. for the most-streamed movie in a week, having amassed 2.89 billion viewing minutes in its first week on the platform.

The sequel to the 2019 murder mystery Knives Out stars a new cast of characters aside from Daniel Craig’s fan-favorite detective Benoit Blanc. In it, Blanc is invited to a murder mystery party on a private Greek island hosted by tech billionaire Miles Bron and, predictably, chaos ensues.

IGN’s 9/10 review of Glass Onion gave the sequel high praise, saying it “improves upon virtually every aspect of its predecessor and delivers a big, bold, funny, angry, timely, and timeless whodunit,” thanks to “an air-tight script that targets the absurdity and stupidity of the one percent.”

It’s not the end of the Knives Out franchise, either — Blanc and his instantly recognizable accent are slated to return to Netflix for a third film in the future thanks to the company’s $450 million deal to acquire two sequels, with Johnson also set to return for the next installment.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.