The popularity of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion continues to break records on Nielsen’s streaming chart after the Knives Out sequel took the title of being the most streamed movie within a monitored week. As per Deadline, on its first full week of release between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1, Glass Onion passed both Hocus Pocus 2 and Wonder Woman 1984 with 2.9 billion minutes viewed. Added to its opening week, which consisted of only a few days, Glass Onion now holds two places on Top Ten weekly volumes since Nielsen began compiling data.

Starring Daniel Craig as eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, Glass Onion is the second of three movies based on the character, and that could just be the start of the franchise if Rian Johnson has his way. Knives Out was a big hit in 2019, and Netflix paid a lot of money to acquire two sequels, the first of which is Glass Onion.

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Having been given a very small theatrical run, Glass Onion was already being talked about and praised by both critics and audiences when it finally arrived on Netflix just before Christmas. The impact was instant, and the movie jumped straight to the top of the streamer’s movie chart with a huge opening audience. While this certainly confirmed that Netflix’s investment in the franchise was one of their best decisions, whether Rian Johnson can strike gold a third time is something that will not be known until Knives Out 3 arrives sometime in the next couple of years.

Rian Johnson Is Ready to Make a Benoit Blanc Franchise, Not a Knives Out One

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While Rian Johnson has been more than happy with Glass Onion’s success, one issue he wants to rectify as soon as possible is to drop “A Knives Out Mystery” from future movies and see it replaced with “A Benoit Blanc Mystery.” As he previously explained:

“The thing is, though, I totally get it. It’s not like this was done against my will or something. I completely understand it. Because after the first movie, I think people knew that they liked ‘Knives Out’ [but] they didn’t necessarily know it well enough to know who Benoit Blanc was. I think that would’ve gotten blank stares. And I wanted everyone who loved ‘Knives Out’ to know that [‘Glass Onion’] is the next one of those. So I absolutely 100% was on board and totally got it that we had to do that. But also, it kills me a little bit and I want to see how quickly we can lose that subtitle. As soon as we can get past those and get to ‘A Benoit Blanc Mystery’ … and I will say, with this one, with the reach of Netflix and just how many more people I feel like have seen it and how much more it feels like it’s actually in the culture, we’re at least getting closer to being able to get away with ‘A Benoit Blanc Mystery’ and people would know what we’re talking about.”