Although GlassOnion came out before PokerFace, director Rian Johnson reveals that he wrote the episode 1 script first before the KnivesOut sequel.
Before Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery came Poker Face, as acclaimed murder mystery writer-director Rian Johnson came up with the script for episode one of his new comedy before starting work on the Netflix movie. Johnson became well-known in the genre thanks to the critically acclaimed 2019 star-studded whodunit Knives Out. Johnson would get nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, showing his outstanding writing skills.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Johnson revealed on Twitter, after Poker Face's premiere, that he wrote episode one of the series before crafting Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. According to the award-winning writer-director, Johnson wrote the script for Poker Face episode one, "Dead Man’s Hand," in 2020 – three years before the show's release and right before he went on to write Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The Poker Face creator also noted that he wanted to set up both the main character Charlie and the structure for future episodes to follow.
Johnson noted the difference between his Knives Out franchise and Poker Face in the past by claiming he wanted the new series to have each episode focused on little corners of the United States and looking into their humanistic aspects, even citing shows like Columbo or Quantum Leap.
Poker Face's connection to Columbo goes beyond its setting, with the show's mystery format being the "howcatchem” — an inverted detective story where the crime is fully shown or described at the beginning before the rest of the story describes the detective's process of solving the mystery.
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