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    Wake Up Dead Man! Watch the Trailer for Rian Johnson’s New Whodunit

    Welcome to Benoit Blanc’s latest and most dangerous case yet.

    By Tara Bitran
    Nov. 17, 2025

Daniel Craig is back for his third installment as detective Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery  — and the “wicked wolves” are on the prowl, as heard in the just-released trailer. “How lucky am I?” says the actor, who previously starred in Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

This is no ordinary case for the stylish sleuth. Even for Blanc, the whodunit at the center of Rian Johnson’s latest mystery appears to be “perfectly impossible,” as he says in the video above. “This goes way beyond normal police work. This is something even I have not experienced.”

Discover Blanc’s most dangerous case yet in the new trailer for Wake Up Dead Man now, before the film hits theaters on Nov. 26 and begins streaming on Netflix Dec. 12.

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Are you ready to descend into this den of secrets? For Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Johnson, this dark and sincere chapter of his murder mystery series “was the hardest script I have ever had to write,” he says.

With Craig leading its all-star cast, Wake Up Dead Man concerns the unraveling of an upstate New York parish when one of their own inexplicably dies before their eyes. In proper Blanc fashion, let’s get to the hole at the center of this donut: When former boxer turned priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that the congregation is in dire straits.

Wicks’s modest but devoted flock includes devout church lady Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), wary groundskeeper Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), tightly wound lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), town doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), reclusive author Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny). 

After a shocking and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) seeks the services of renowned detective Blanc (of course) to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

Playing the young priest at the center of this church community’s crisis of faith, O’Connor was floored when he read Johnson’s script. “What made me want to do the movie was the balance between comedy and Rian’s writing, which is always uncovering something that we don’t often see in a comedy,” says the actor.

Like Kunis’s police chief says in the trailer, there certainly is some “Scooby-Doo shit going on here.” See for yourself just how incapable Benoit Blanc is of not solving a crime when Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery screens in theaters Nov. 26 and begins streaming on Netflix Dec. 12.

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