Netflix revealed the first official poster of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mysteryone of its most anticipated original projects in 2025, the third installment of the Universe Knives Outof the screenwriter and director Rian Johnson.
With the launch of the poster, the streamer finally reveals the launch plans of the “Whodunnit”. After celebrating its world premiere as the inaugural film of the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival in October, Netflix will grant you two weeks of premiere in selected cinemas from the United States as of November 26. Subsequently it will be released In the streamer worldwide on December 12.
The poster, available at the end of the note, shows Daniel Craig On his return as the detective Benoit Blanc, observing an open grave surrounded by the suspects. On them a dark and gloomy, British -looking sky extends, and we know that it will soon rain. It always rains. But who is the murderer in this new story?
The plot will present “The most dangerous case of Benoit Blanc so far.”
Craig is accompanied by a stellar cast made up of Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus), Andrew Scott (Ripley), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Glenn Close (Tehran), Jeremy Renner (Mayor of Kingstown), Kunis (Bad Moms), Daryl McCormack (Twisters), Josh Brolin (Sicario) y Thomas Haden Church (Twisted Metal).
Official synopsis:
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case to date in the third and darkest chapter of the mystery novel and murder of Rian Johnson. When the young priest Judentice (Josh O'Connor) is sent to help the charismatic and passionate Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it is clear that not everything goes well in the church.
The modest but devout Wicks group includes the religious devotee Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), the prudent gardener Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), the tenacious lawyer Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), the aspiring politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), the local doctor Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner) Sales successes Lee Ross (Andrew Scott) and the Concert cellist Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny).
After a sudden and apparently impossible murder shakes the city, the lack of an obvious suspect drives the head of local police Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) to join forces with the renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that challenges all logic.
The script was written by Johnson.
Johnson produces the feature film with Ram Bergman, with Tom Karnowski as executive producer, and Leopold Hughes as co -producer.
The so -called “Whodunit Cinema” had a kind of resurgence with the premiere of the first film, which became the second highest grossing film in 2019, in addition to having won the recognition of criticism and audience, and that of colleagues in the film industry, being recognized with an Óscar nomination for best original script (Johnson).
After the great success of Knives OutNetflix Pago a Lionsgate for the distribution rights of the following two films under the nickname A Knives Out Mysteryfor the negligible amount of $ 450 million. In December 2022 the sequel was launched Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery In Netflix, with a limited premiere in theaters of the USA.
Official poster:
Source: https://cine3.com/primer-poster-wake-up-dead-man-knives-out-mystery/
