In 2019, Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc joined Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and so many more as one of the great fictional detectives thanks to his investigation in Knives Out. Blanc returned three years later for Glass Onion, and Wake Up Dead Man will bring him back into our lives towards the end of the 2025 movies calendar. The first teaser for the informally-known Knives Out 3 revealed that it will skew darker compared to its predecessors, and I’m especially intrigued by what writer/director Rian Johnson recently said about how this case affect impact Craig’s character.
This time around, there’s a religious bent to the murder that Benoit Blanc’s looking into, as the Netflix subscription-exclusive Wake Up Dead Man centers around a New England church. Johnson told Empire that “all the suspects are regulars in the parish,” but this won’t be a simple solve for Blanc, even going off the standards set by Knives Out and Glass Onion. The filmmaker explained:
