Elon Musk is known as by many names: world’s richest man, tech tycoon, social media mogul.
In addition to those, he’s now additionally the inspiration for Netflix’s new whodunnit “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery?”
In the film, a detective performed by Daniel Craig investigates a homicide on the personal Greek island of tech billionaire Miles Bron.
Bron, performed by Edward Norton, is a brash entrepreneur and self-proclaimed genius who has made a number of fortunes with completely different firms. He delights in confounding these round him together with his newest whims and riddles.
Since the thriller satire first premiered on the Toronto movie competition in September, critics have famous parallels to Musk, who based SpaceX, runs Tesla and lately purchased Twitter.
Vanity Fair mentioned the movie skewered “the foolish, and at times dangerous, messianic of the tech industry,” calling Miles a “melange” of Musk and Steve Jobs.
Meanwhile, Mashable famous the movie’s “none-too-subtle scathing and silly send-up of Elon Musk.”
“If you think the shoe fits, then they were probably in our conversation,” teased Norton at a Los Angeles press convention on Tuesday.
“But I also think Miles is kind of like the Carly Simon song ‘You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you,'” he added.
“I think a lot of (tech billionaires) will think it’s about them. And that’s fine!”
Writer-director Rian Johnson (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”) mentioned the character was not based mostly on only one real-life determine. He informed journalists that “taking the piss out of any specific person just was not all that interesting.”
But, he mentioned the film was about “our relationship as a society to these Willy Wonka characters who we, on one hand, want to throw elephant poop at, but on the other hand … have some weird childlike wish that they will create a chocolate factory and solve all our problems.”
Musk has lately drawn widespread criticism over his troubled buy and controversial revamp of Twitter.
“Glass Onion,” a sequel to 2019’s “Knives Out” – which was loosely impressed by Agatha Christie’s novels – would be the first Netflix movie to play in main U.S. theater chains for a one-week run, because the streamer experiments with new income sources.
It comes out in theaters on Nov. 23 and shall be out there on streaming a month later.
