‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ release date for theaters and Netflix: Amazing cast and trailer
Benoit Blanc is back in the third instalment in Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ mysteries. This whodunit will be the debonair detective’s most impossible yet.
Fans of the ‘Knives Out’ murder mystery franchise will be happy to know that the wait for the highly-anticipated third installment is almost over. ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ will be hitting select theaters on 26 November and a little over two weeks later available to stream on Netflix on 12 December.
Critics who had a chance to see writer and director Rian Johnson‘s third ‘Knives Out’ movie when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival are already saying that this may be the best one yet. Daniel Craig returns as the debonair Southern sleuth, Benoit Blanc, to solve “a classic, impossible crime.”
Benoit Blanc’s “darkest and most personal case to date”
This latest ‘Knives Out’ murder mystery takes place in a small church in upstate New York. The tightly knit congregation is led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) who meets his demise in a most impossible manner.
“To understand this case, you need to look at the myth that’s being constructed. A man gives a sermon. He then, in plain sight of everyone, walks into a sealed concrete box. Thirty seconds later, that man is lying dead. A classic, impossible crime,” explains Craig’s Blanc in the trailer.
Tudum touts the feature film as Blanc’s “darkest and most personal case to date.”
“This film charts [Blanc’s] most personal journey yet. He’s forced to engage with the case — and with himself — in a way that’s completely new,” says Johnson.
The A-list cast of ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
As with previous ‘Knives Out’ movies, it includes a star-studded cast.
The congregation is composed of Glenn Close, who plays Martha Delacroix, a mysterious devout parishioner; Kerry Washington, in Vera Draven, a “tightly-wound lawyer”; Daryl McCormack, in the role of an aspiring politician Cy Draven; Cailee Spaeny, as former concert cellist Simone Vivane; Jeremy Renner, the town doctor Nat Sharp; Andrew Scott, in the role of Lee Ross, a washed-up sci-fi author; and Thomas Haden Church plays of Samson Holt, the groundskeeper.
Josh O’Connor, as Jud Duplenticy, a young priest recently sent to assist Monsignor Wicks. And rounding the A-list cast is Mila Kunis as the local police chief Geraldine Scott helping Blanc.
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