Glenn Close lets out a guttural scream in the Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery teaser trailer. Josh O’Connor has blood on his hands. Andrew Scott is being eaten alive by catholic guilt. And above all, Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc is back to get to the bottom of another seemingly unexplainable murder mystery.
“To understand this case, you need to look at the myth that’s being constructed,” Benoit tells the parishioners, wondering how their church became a site of investigation. “A man gives a sermon. He then, in plain sight of everyone, walks into a sealed concrete box. And 30 seconds later, that man is lying dead. A classic, impossible crime.” He knows all about these, having solved two previously in Knives Out and Glass Onion. But there’s something about this one that seems much more sinister.
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Benoit finds a right-hand man in Father Jud Duplenticy (O’Connor), a young clergyman at Lady of Perpetual Fortitude who knew enough to land the position, but can’t break away from the habit of saying “Holy shit.” Their good cop-bad cop ploy doesn’t seem to be particularly convincing or even fear-inspiring to the suspects of the congregation. Confessions await, with Wake Up Dead Man scheduled to arrive on Netflix on Dec. 12 following a brief theatrical release in November.
The third Knives Out mystery features Craig, O’Connor, Close, Scott, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church. “We’ve been very lucky with each of these movies to have gathered some of my favorite actors on the planet, and that’s absolutely the case here,” creator Rian Johnson told Netflix. “They’re also all lovely folks who get along, which is the dinner party aspect of it.”
“Everyone seems to be having a blast, and the filmmaker knows how to take both the ensemble he’s assembled and his congregation of Knives Out fans — call us Blanc-heads — to church, literally and figuratively,” Rolling Stone‘s David Fear wrote in a review of the film. “And while this is designed as an entertainment, there’s a sneaking suspicion that, when all is said and done, the creators of this romp through religious murder-mystery riffing would very much like people to clock how certain strains of manipulation work and wake the fuck up.”
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