Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery trailer: Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig have teamed up yet again for the third film of their popular franchise Knives Out. The third instalment, titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, enjoys a distinct flavour like the first two parts. While the first part (2019) was a hat tip to legendary murder mystery writer Agatha Christie, the second, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), was set on a remote island.
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The third part is, interestingly, set in an upstate New York church. Like the first two parts, the threequel also boasts of an incredible star cast. The trailer of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was unveiled by Netflix on Monday. It opens with Josh O’ Connor’s character Jud, much to his horror, being directly accused of killing Monsignor Wicks (played by Josh Brolin) since he was “the only one present on stage at the time of his killing.”
There’s more reason to believe as Jud is said to be “the only one at the church who hated his guts.” To make matters worse for him, Andrew Scott’s character pops up to ask him, “The Spirit really moved him today, huh?” “Everyone thinks I did it. I didn’t do it,” Jud pleads to Craig’s colourful detective Benoit Blanc.
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Blanc feels the case is a “perfectly impossible crime,” which even he has never experienced. He insists one would have to go beyond normal police work to unearth this one. But he also assures the local police, “I’m incapable of not solving a crime.” We get introduced to the rest of the characters one by one — there’s Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, and even Glenn Close, the dead man’s most loyal devout, who reveals like every murder mystery, that the subject had a “vast family fortune.”
Blanc is so suspicious of the pack that he calls them a “flock of wicked wolves.” Having played the apex spy James Bond across five films, Craig doesn’t invoke 007, but Scooby Doo this time. The popular animated character is known for solving “perfectly impossible” crimes along with his four human associates, collectively called Mystery Inc.
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While the first part of the Knives Out trilogy was a potshot at US President Donald Trump’s divisive politics, the threequel also carries that forward after his reelection earlier this year. Johnson maintains it’s “unapologetically set and tuned into this moment” in the United States. He also noted this instalment was heavily influenced by the 19th century writing of Edgar Allan Poe, adding a “darker” and more “Gothic” edge, instead of the Agatha Christie tribute that the first part was.
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Also starring Mila Kunis, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church among others, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery drops on Netflix on December 12.
