Is Glass Onion’s Miles Bron Based on Elon Musk?

In “Glass Onion”, the exciting sequel to 2019’s “Knives Out” edward norton He stars as Miles Bron, a tech billionaire who invites all his successful and slightly fawning friends to an island in Greece for a fun getaway. Miles is extremely wealthy and full of innovative ideas; we learn when we meet his employee Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom Jr.) that some of his recent ideas include “Uber for Biospheres,” “AI in dogs = speech,” and “kid = NFT.” “Genius always seems crazy at first,” Lionel tells concerned investors, and it’s obvious the entire group, if not the entire world, believes this about Miles. We learn that his Alpha company owns many others including Alpha Cosmos, Alpha Car, Alpha Shop.

For anyone who pays attention to the news, Miles may sound a bit familiar. He may sound a lot like Elon Musk. Y at the end of “Crystal Onion” (*spoiler alert*), master detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) reveals that Miles is not a tech genius at all; he just built his name on the backs of others, which is also a common criticism of Musk.

Writer-director Rian Johnson has pondered whether Miles is really based on Musk, and the answer is a bit tricky. speaking to cabling in a December 23 interview, he explained, “There’s a lot of general stuff about that kind of tech billionaire sort of thing that went right into that.” Musk was an inspiration, but not the inspiration. But Johnson admitted that it’s strange to have created this movie so much earlier. Musk acquired Twitter,…