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. https://www.darkhorizons.com/trailer-wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery/
I don't know why but I never watched the 2nd film, even though I absolutely loved everything about the first Knives Out. I really need to change that before this is released.
This movie was SO MUCH better than the 2nd one. I think I may even like it more than the first. Josh Brolin's character is totally unhinged and Glen Close nails the shrewish, judgy moralist. Josh O'Connor plays the open book ernest main character to a t. The gothic horror setting is nice too and the big reveal is very well managed. In fact, the entire story is presented in a way that I can only describe as excelent, intricate craftmanship. Two thumbs up. Highly recomended.
The faith of the main character is better done than the christian-speak on 99% of murder mysteries. I appreciate that. But the ravings of the monsignor are not only unrecognizable but also were completely incoherent. Just stringing Christian vocabulary together. That was a little disappointing. But overall pretty good murder mystery.
I thought the fact that he really wasn't much of a real Christian but was just putting on a show to help him cary out his own agenda of self aggrandizement and vengance was kind of the point of his character. If he was a competent, intellegent, faithful Christian the entire town wouldn't be filled with screwed up, greedy, angry, selfish paranoid people. And that was the whole basis of why the young priest was upset in the first place. If he was spouting hetrodoxy and being a good Christian, young Father Duplenticy wouldn't have had any reason to be in conflict with him, the whole town would have loved him, and the movie would have been a very boring 20 minutes long, with everybody singing kumbaya at the end. His whole point as a character was that he was rotten inside, mean, and selfish but he was very charasmatic and looked the part on the outside. He repersented false Christianity. He was the proverbial "false prophet". Feature, not a bug?
I agree with all that. But there are plenty of real life cult leaders and they don't simply string together Christian sounding words. Dude's sermon didn't make me want to join a cult at all. Just thought that aspect would have been better if he actually felt like a cult leader someone would follow.
