Glass Ui’s Miles Source Not Based on Elon Musk, Says Rian Johnson; Only Similarity “A Terrible, Terrible Accident”

Filmmaker Rian Johnson discussed the similarities between them glass onion Character Miles Bron and Elon Musk, noting that any resemblance between the fictional tech billionaire and his real-life counterpart is purely unintentional.

Johnson admitted in a recent interview with Wired that his film has a “very bizarre” real-world resonance when it comes to Source, before joking that he hopes there isn’t a “secret marketing department at Netflix” that will not fund. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.

“There’s a lot of common stuff about this type of tech billionaire that goes right in [Glass Onion]. But of course it has an almost strange relevance in the present moment,” Johnson mused. A friend of mine said, ‘Man, it feels like it was written this afternoon.’ And it’s just a horrible, horrible accident, you know?

Johnson reiterated this during the Wired interview he wrote glass onion in 2020, long before Musk appeared on Twitter. Edward Norton’s character Miles, he explained, should represent one archetype among many very familiar in our modern world, rather than replacing anyone in particular. “The intention was to accurately portray what it was like to have our heads in the center of the cultural sphere for the past six years,” he said. “It’s a rather nightmarish kind of carnival at the moment, a Fellini-esque inflated reality.”

The second in a series of Johnson mysteries following the Oscar-nominated 2019 blockbuster knife out, glass onion meet the famous Southern detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who travels to Greece to play a crime game involving Bron and a small group of the tycoon’s rich and influential friends. The film dropped on Netflix on December 23, after showing in 600 theaters the previous month.