Hot on the heels of its Toronto Film Festival premiere, Netflix has premiered the official teaser trailer for Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” the third film in the director’s Benoit Blanc film series.
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery series.
In the film, a priest gives a fiery sermon and then locks himself in a sealed stone chamber – no way in or out beyond the door he entered in full view of everyone. Thirty seconds later, he’s found dead in that box. How did he die?
Josh O’Connor plays a young priest who serves as Blanc aide in this outing. The all-star cast also includes Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Daryl McCormack, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny and Kerry Washington.
The film launched to rave reviews at TIFF this weekend, pulling in excellent scores with many calling it either the best or second best of the series and widely lauded turns by O’Connor and Close.
Johnson and Ram Bergman are producing with the film which will get a limited theatrical release on November 26th and will then hit the Netflix service on December 12th 2025.
