What's the new 'Knives Out' mystery about? Everything to know about 'Wake Up Dead Man,' including who's in the cast and what the reviews say.
Wake up, mystery fans — a new Knives Out thriller has arrived. The third film in Rian Johnson’s whodunit series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , hit theaters for a limited run on Nov. 26 before it drops on Netflix on Dec. 12. True to its predecessors, Wake Up Dead Man stars Daniel Craig as Southern detective Benoit Blanc, who must solve a puzzling murder case in which a number of colorful characters are suspects.
While Knives Out had Blanc solve a case at a wealthy author’s estate and the second film in the series, Glass Onion, took him to a private billionaire’s island, Wake Up Dead Man brings Blanc to a small church in upstate New York for what director Johnson told Netflix’s Tudum is his “most personal journey” yet.
“It’s more similar to the first Knives Out in that it gets back to the real origins of the genre, which predate Agatha Christie, going back to Edgar Allan Poe,” Johnson told the outlet, noting that it’s still “funny and fun.”
