Wake Up Dead Man! First Teaser For The Third Knives Out Mystery

Netflix has debuted the first teaser trailer for the upcoming third part in the Knives Out series – Wake Up Dead Man – which you can watch below!

Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc to solve another case, this time tackling the cast of an impossible murder in a small, church-devoted town. Josh O’ Connor, Josh Brolin, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Thomas Haden-Church and Glenn Close co-star in the new installment. Rian Johnson writes and directs once more.

The film has just had its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous reviews, with its international premiere scheduled for October 8th, when it opens the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Tickets for its screenings at the festival go on sale on September 16th on the BFI website.

Official Synopsis:

Benoit Blanc (Daniel 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 (Josh 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’s modest-but-devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly-wound lawyer Vera Draven, Esq. (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), best-selling author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee 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. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson writes and directs Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and assembles another all-star, award-winning cast.

You can watch the trailer below:

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery opens in select cinemas on November 26th before hitting Netflix on December 12th.

SUPPORT US!!! WE ARE A SMALL, INDEPENDENT FILM WEBSITE WITH NO BIG BACKERS, SO IF YOU LOVE OUR SITE AND OUR WRITERS, PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING US TO KEEP FILM JOURNALISM ALIVE!

About the Author

Scott J. Davis

Administrator

Editor of The People's Movies for a year and a half, Scott has over 13 years of experience as a film writer and critic, writing for such sites as Digital Spy, Sci-Fi Now, Yahoo Movies UK, Flickering Myth, and more. He is also a retired interviewer and red carpet reporter for HeyUGuys since 2016, where he has attended hundreds of junkets and premieres, interviewing a range of talent from Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lawrence, Samuel L. Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Jim Carrey, Emily Blunt and many more.

Visit Website View All Posts