Glass onion: a mystery at loggerheads is full of goodness from Rian Johnson, but did you know it almost included a tribute to musical legend David Bowie?

Glass Onion Cast members Janelle Monáe and Edward Norton revealed at a Nov. 14 press conference that they filmed a scene where their characters starred together in Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream.” (Monáe covered the song in the past.)

The scene is a flashback to the early friendship between tech disruptors Miles Bron (Norton) and Cassandra “Andi” Brand (Monáe). In it, Andi sings “Moonage Daydream” while Miles accompanies her on guitar. Their friends Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn) and Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson) dance sideways “like go-go dancers,” Johnson said.

Shot at the end of a day’s filming, around 1 a.m., the scene was meant to illustrate Miles and Andi’s friendship before it soured. “We were trying to think of things they could have done in the bar when it was good, when we were bonding,” Norton explained.

“To show the deep connection,” Monáe added.

Both Monáe and Norton are huge Bowie fans, so they approached Johnson with the idea that the Glass Onion bar where Andi and Miles hang out might have had an open mic night. Norton even contacted someone he knows from the musical instrument company Gibson to get a replica of Mick Ronson’s Black Beauty Les Paul guitar for Miles to play on stage.

While filming the scene – “Rian gave us two takes,” Norton said – she was cut from Glass Onion. Hearing this, interviewer Josh Horowitz exclaimed, “Free the Bowie Cut!”

However, if Johnson has his way, we may never see the footage.

“It’s such an incredible memory of that surreal late night, the best concert in the world for about seven people standing in a basement bar in Belgrade,” Johnson said. “It’s so romantic, I almost want to burn the images.”

If you still fancy a David Bowie-Glass Onion crossover, you’re in luck. Keep your ears open for Bowie’s song “Starman,” featured in the Glass Onion Bar’s bonding scene – perhaps as a tribute to what could have been.

Glass Onion is now on Netflix.