Where Was Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Filmed?

A murder mystery is nothing without a motive, a weapon, and a primary crime scene. Like Harlan Thrombey’s (Christopher Plummer) neo-Gothic mansion in “knives out“The private island of Miles Bron (Edward Norton) in the Netflix series”Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery“serves as the ideal setting for a crime of passion. The jewel in the island’s crown is a giant glass dome that cuts a striking silhouette at the center of the tech billionaire’s private mansion. Miles refers to the property as the glass onion, one reference to the Beatles song of the same name. The movie was actually shot at Amanzoe, a luxury hotel near Porto Heli, Greece.

Where was “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” filmed?

In fact, the expensive resort, which is open to the publicIt’s not on an island at all. Instead, Porto Heli is located in a strip of mainland greece called Peloponnese, about four and a half kilometers from the Ionian Sea, according to Count Nast Traveler. The complex also has olive groves in the surrounding area.

Production designer Rick Heinrichs told the magazine that the Aman villa caught his eye early on in the scouting process, but he wasn’t sure if they would be allowed to film at the exclusive resort. After six weeks of searching, the villa’s modernist aesthetic and classical Greek architecture helped it win out above the rest. “Nothing matched the Aman,” he said. “That’s life sometimes. You’re afraid of falling in love too soon and there’s something better out there, but it turns out you were…