RIAN JOHNSON IS tired. Rian Johnson is jet-lagged. In fact, there’s a chance that when Rian Johnson sits down in London to talk with Empire about Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, that he may not actually be in the room. “I’m not even here. I’m like Luke in The Last Jedi,” he says, neatly referencing his own movie. “I’m back in my cave.” Force projection aside, the reason why Johnson is so tired is that he’s been hither and thither promoting the heck out of Glass Onion, the second instalment in his series of mystery movies featuring Daniel Craig as the indefatigable detective Benoit Blanc. Unusually for a big Netflix release, the film had a major theatrical run (albeit for just a week), during which it was clear that this was a meticulously constructed crowdpleaser that will largely live its life without a crowd to please. But it’s also, like The Last Jedi, a sequel that rips up the rulebook, swapping gloom for sunshine, Boston for Greece, a straight-up murder-mystery for something more labyrinthine involving deception, internet-dudes doltery, the Mona Lisa, and more. Here, with some spoilers lurking within, Johnson talks about all these things.