Detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, is back to solve yet another murder. This time, his right-hand man is a young priest played by Josh O'Connor.
Rian Johnson assembles yet another all-star cast in the Netflix feature Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery that will be seen in select theatres in the US from November 26 before its global premiere on December 12. Check out the first teaser below!
Wake Up Dead Man teaser looks into holy murder
On X (formerly Twitter), Netflix unveiled the first teaser and posted, "A holy mystery unfolds. WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY arrives in select cinemas 26 November and on Netflix worldwide 12 December." Benoit Blanc now finds himself in upstate New York to look into the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), which is "unsolvable."
With young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) by his side, Benoit looks into Wicks' congregation made up of pious church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), bestselling author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny). Jud and Benoit also join forces with local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis). The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It will also open the BFI London Film Festival on October 8.
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Rian Johnson on Wake Up Dead Man
The filmmaker's screenplays for Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery were both Oscar-nominated. For the third film in the franchise, Johnson took inspiration from John Dickson Carr novels that focused on locked-room mysteries. Other inspirations included Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Vicarage and GK Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries. Speaking about Benoit's most impossible case, the writer-director shared, "This film charts [Blanc’s] most personal journey yet. He’s forced to engage with the case — and with himself — in a way that’s completely new.”
