Was the Cast in the First "Knives Out" Bigger -- and More Interesting?

I am below doing the "counting" to see if there are more suspects in the original Knives Out than in Glass Onion, but it FELT like it as I watched Glass Onion.

Daniel Craig is the anchor in both films.

But the suspects(and potential victims) in the first one included

Ana de Arnas
Chris Evans (one of those Marvel stars who isn't really a star-- or is he?)
Christopher Plummer
Jamie Lee Curtis
Don Johnson
Toni Colllette
Michael Shannon

That's seven.

Here's the count for Glass Onion:

Edward Norton
Janelle Monae
Kathryn Hahn (whose face has certainly changed -- nice surgery!)
Leslie Odom Jr.
Kate Hudson
Dave Bautista
Jessica Henwick
Madelyn Cline (the female eye candy)

That's eight. But I suppose Henwick isn't particularly star casting and doesn't particularly do anything in the film. So, that's seven too.

I dunno...I guess that's about even with the original. Edward Norton and Kate Hudson have the longest range stardom; Dave Bautista is hot right now(shall we figure that Craig brought him along from Spectre?) Leslie Odom, Jr. -- a veteran of the new Agatha Christie movies -- has a distinctive charisma and manner.

But....I kinda lean the group in the original.

They had some history in movies and they had distinctive FACES -- Don Johnson's very handsome face, Michael Shannon's brooding borderline ugly one; Jamie Lee Curtis all "mature and gray and handsome." Toni Collette's face has always rather reminded me of the Mock Turtle.

And Chris Evans DID prove to have star quality away from Captain America in a vastly different kind of role -- "weird and wacky."

Ana de Arma was lovely.

Again, I dunno, I guess the two casts are rather equal -- though is Kate Hudson REALLY a star?

Ah, hell, I'm going with the original cast. Johnson, Shannon, Curtis and Collette have great faces and track records as stars. Ana de Arma is lovely. Christopher Plummer is a now-gone symbol of movie aristocracy past.