Wake Up Dead Man trailer: Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnsons new gothic, puzzle-box

Netflix has launched the primary trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, giving audiences a take a look at Daniel Craig’s newest flip as detective Benoit Blanc. The third movie in Rian Johnson’s franchise will debut in choose theaters on November 26 earlier than arriving on the streamer on December 12.

The trailer introduces Blanc as he investigates what’s described as his “most harmful case but.” The thriller begins with the demise of a priest below seemingly unimaginable circumstances. “A person offers a sermon. He then, in plain sight of everybody, walks right into a sealed concrete field. Thirty seconds later, that man is mendacity useless. A basic, unimaginable crime,” Craig’s Blanc says within the footage.

Joining Craig is a star-studded forged that features Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church. The story facilities on younger priest Jud Duplenticy (O’Connor), who is shipped to help Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Brolin) at a small-town parish. When tragedy strikes, the modest congregation — that includes characters performed by Close, Church, Washington, Renner, Scott, Spaeny and McCormack — falls below suspicion. Kunis seems because the city’s police chief, working alongside Blanc to unravel the crime.

Johnson wrote and directed Wake Up Dead Man, which he additionally produced with Ram Bergman. The movie follows the success of Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), the latter a part of Netflix’s multibillion-dollar deal to proceed the franchise.