Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor are featured in a cathedral in a first look image for the third “Knives Out” whodunit from writer/director Rian Johnson, which the streamer revealed will debut on its platform this Fall.
“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” features the return of Southern detective Benoit Blanc, played by Craig in his “most dangerous case yet,” joined by an all-star cast of suspects including O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church. Plot details for the film–whose title comes from a U2 song on the 1997 album “Pop”–were not revealed.
“We’ve been very lucky with each of these movies to have gathered some of my favorite actors on the planet,” said Johnson.
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The standalone sequel follows 2019’s “Knives Out” and 2022’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
Lionsgate distributed 2019 hit “Knives Out,” which made $312 million worldwide and earned Johnson an Oscar nomination for its screenplay. The movie surrounded the death of a crime novelist and his family, and featured a cast that included Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Netflix then inked a deal with Johnson for two additional “Knives Out” mysteries, the first was 2022’s “Glass Onion,” set on a tech billionaires private island with suspects played by the likes of Edward Norton, Janelle Monae and Kathryn Hahn.
That movie included a one-week theatrical release, which Craig hopes will be more expansive for “Wake Up Dead Man.” In a Variety interview for its “Queer” cover story, Craig said, “Hopefully, Netflix will push it out a bit, and people will get to see it. The people I speak to — the fans, I suppose — all they want to do is take their families and go see it at the cinemas. That’s all they want to do. Hopefully we can give them that experience.”