Holy Murder Mystery: Daniel Craig is Back on the Case in “Wake Up Dead Man” Trailer
The official teaser for Rian Johnson‘s third Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, has arrived. Daniel Craig returns as the dandy detective Benoit Blanc to solve what the teaser promises will be his most dangerous case, which involves the seemingly impossible crime of a priest’s murder.
“To understand this case, you need to look at the myth that’s being constructed,” Craig’s Blanc says during the teaser. “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.”
That man is Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), whose devoted flock are shocked by his murder, and local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) teams up with Blanc to try to solve a case that does something Blanc cannot abide—defies all logic.
Previous glimpses of Wake Up Dead Man have hinted at how Johnson’s third film will skew closer toward horror than the previous installments, the first of which, Knives Out, was set in a Gothic revival mansion and was a classic cozy whodunit, while the second, Glass Onion, was a sun-soaked murder mystery involving bizarro billionaires and ne’er do-wells on a Greek island. Wake Up Dead Man puts Blanc on a case steeped in religious myth and miracle, a rich vein for the brilliant, hyper-rational detective to tap.
As he did in the previous two films, Johnson has assembled a dream cast surrounding Craig, including the aforementioned Brolin and Kunis, along with Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Josh O’Connor, Jeremy Renner, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Thomas Haden Church, Daryl McCormack, Kerry Frances, Annie Hamilton, and Marcus Edward Bond.
Check out the teaser below. Wake Up Dead Man arrives in select theaters on November 26, before streaming on Netflix on December 12.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Benoit Blanc (Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’ modest-but-devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Close), circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt (Church), tightly-wound lawyer Vera Draven, Esq. (Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Renner), best-selling author Lee Ross (Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Spaeny). After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.”
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