The world’s most stylish detective returns once again as Netflix unveils the full trailer for ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery‘, the third outing for Benoit Blanc. Arriving in cinemas for a limited run later this November before landing on Netflix in December, this new chapter finds the famous sleuth trading sun-soaked islands and grand mansions for a far more unsettling setting: a small church in upstate New York.
Rian Johnson has been steadily winding the Blanc mystery machine tighter with each instalment, and this latest film looks to push the detective into his most intimate and unnerving case yet. Johnson has already described it as “his most personal journey yet” and the trailer wastes no time proving that point. The atmosphere is dark, the setting is sparse, and the puzzle looks every bit the impossible crime that detective fiction lovers dream of.
Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc, joined this time by Josh O’Connor (Challengers) as goodhearted young priest Jud Duplenticy and Josh Brolin (Dune) as Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, a figure whose charisma seems matched only by the secrets under his parish’s roof. The congregation is stacked with potential suspects, including Glenn Close (Tehran), Thomas Haden Church (Divorce), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Andrew Scott (Ripley), and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla). Rounding things off is Mila Kunis (Luckiest Girl Alive) as the local police chief dragged into a mystery that bends the rules of reality.
The story begins when an unfathomable murder shakes the parish, kicking off a mystery steeped in guilt, faith, misdirection and a classic locked room conundrum. Johnson has said the film draws heavily on impossible crime maestro John Dickson Carr and carries strong echoes of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries. That influence is clear in every candlelit frame of the trailer.
As with Knives Out and Glass Onion, Johnson once again teases a bold shift in tone and structure. This time the film leans into gothic intrigue, clerical secrets and moral puzzles that all seem laser-targeted to give Blanc a crisis as knotty as the murder itself. If the trailer is anything to go by, fans are in for a claustrophobic and cerebral entry in the saga.
‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery‘ premieres Thursday, 12th December 2025 on Netflix.
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