Daniel Craig is back as detective Benoit Blanc — and this time, he’s heading to church. Netflix just dropped the teaser trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third entry in Rian Johnson’s acclaimed whodunit franchise.
The film will debut in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on December 12.
The trailer teases a dark new setting: a small-town church. “A man gives a sermon. He then, in plain sight of everyone, walks into a sealed concrete box. Thirty seconds later, that man is lying dead. A classic, impossible crime,” Blanc narrates.
That impossible crime? The murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, played by Josh Brolin, who collapses in the middle of Mass.
Joining Craig in the ensemble are Kerry Washington and Daryl McCormack, alongside Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Josh O’Connor, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, and Thomas Haden Church.
Josh O’Connor stars as Father Jud Duplenticy, a young priest assigned to assist the fiery Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, played by Josh Brolin. Wicks’ congregation is a colorful mix of personalities, from Glenn Close’s devout church lady Martha Delacroix to Kerry Washington’s tightly-wound lawyer Vera Draven and her ambitious politician brother Cy, played by Daryl McCormack.
The parish also includes Thomas Haden Church as circumspect groundskeeper Samson Holt, Jeremy Renner as town doctor Nat Sharp, Andrew Scott as guilt-ridden best-selling author Lee Ross, and Cailee Spaeny as concert cellist Simone Vivane. When a seemingly impossible murder shakes the town, local police chief Geraldine Scott, portrayed by Mila Kunis, joins forces with Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to untangle a mystery that defies all logic.
The first Knives Out premiered in 2019 and became a cultural phenomenon. Netflix later acquired the rights to two sequels, kicking off with 2022’s Glass Onion. With Wake Up Dead Man, Johnson leans into gothic atmosphere, religious undertones, and what critics are already calling Blanc’s “most dangerous case yet.”