Wake Up Dead Man: New Trailer Released Online

A new trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the highly anticipated third instalment in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise, has been released online ahead of its December release.

The film will once again follow renowned detective Blanc (Daniel Craig) as he takes on a new puzzling case. The official synopsis reads: “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“.

The cast also includes Josh O’Connor as priest Jud Duplenticy, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), devout churchgoer Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny) and finally author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott).

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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will be the third installment of Rian Johnson’s critically acclaimed murder mystery franchise. The first film, simply titled Knives Out, was released in 2019, and the second, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, came out in 2022. The whodunnit anthology franchise was created by Johnson, and every entry features a completely different and unrelated mystery, with the only connection between the films being Daniel Craig’s Detective Blanc. His character is a quirky Southern private investigator who has an uncanny ability to read people and has a knack for putting seemingly unrelated clues together to solve cases.

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

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