Benoit Blanc is definitely one among Daniel Craig’s greatest characters, however followers of the skillful sleuth have gone hungry as of late. Blanc hasn’t solved an on-screen thriller since Rian Johnson outdid himself with 2022’s hilarious “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller,” the second installment in what viewers little doubt hope can be a long-running franchise. Now, fortuitously, “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller” is nearly right here.
The primary look/announcement teaser for “Wake Up Lifeless Man” (which launched again in Could) beforehand indicated that the film may be considerably darker than its predecessors, due to its ominously gothic upstate New York setting and basic church-themed spookiness. Do not let the appears deceive you, although. Talking in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum web site, Johnson confirmed that the spirit of the property remains to be very a lot current right here. “It is extra much like the primary ‘Knives Out’ in that it will get again to the true origins of the style, which predate Agatha Christie, going again to Edgar Allan Poe,” the filmmaker defined. “It is nonetheless a Benoit Blanc thriller, so it is humorous and enjoyable, nevertheless it’s set in an previous stone church, there are many graveyards.”
“Wake Up Lifeless Man” will lastly make its manner into choose theaters in November earlier than streaming on Netflix in December. Earlier than that, nevertheless, you may get a sneak peek on the movie by testing the newly-unveiled trailer (see above).
Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic within the Wake Up Lifeless Man trailer
A homicide dressed up as a miracle? A person of religion who seemingly ends his personal life? An “inconceivable crime” that leaves a complete group looking for solutions? Yeah, that appears like precisely the type of thriller that solely Benoit Blanc may remedy. Filmmaker Rian Johnson has promised that “Wake Up Lifeless Man” would really feel separate and distinct from each earlier entries within the murder-mystery franchise, and that definitely seems to be the case. As seen in a video of his introduction earlier than the world premiere screening on the ongoing Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, the author/director teased how this third movie would return to the roots of the whodunnit style. Sure, the rumors are true: He is taking us again to church (fairly actually) as issues go full Gothic.
After all, he will not be going it alone. Josh Brolin seems because the deceased sufferer/preacher Jefferson Micks, whereas “Challengers” star Josh O’Connor appears to be taking over the basic sidekick position of the Watson to Benoit Blanc’s Sherlock as Rev. Jud Duplenticy. Elsewhere, Mila Kunis is officer Geraldine Scott, a cop tasked with lending as a lot help as she will through the investigation. That leaves us with a gaggle of churchgoing suspects, any of whom may’ve been the one to commit such an “unholy” homicide – Glenn Shut as Martha Delacroix, Jeremy Renner as Dr. Nat Sharp, Kerry Washington as Vera Draven, Andrew Scott as Lee Ross, “Alien: Romulus” star Cailee Spaeny as Simone Vivane, Daryl McCormack as Cy Draven, and Thomas Haden Church as Samson Holt.
Formally (and considerably clunkily) titled “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller,” the comfy homicide film will start a restricted theatrical launch on November 26, 2025, earlier than heading to streaming on Netflix December 12, 2025.
