Benoit Blanc is back.
Netflix unveiled the first footage for the third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, during its live Tudum event Saturday. Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner and more amped up the crowd with t-shirt guns. While various stars also appeared to introduce the footage, including an f-bomb wielding Glenn Close via video and Daniel Craig showing up in person. The first look was both dramatic and theatrical, delivered with filmmaker Rian Johnson’s trademark flair.
“The impossible crime,” says Craig in the trailer, adding of a murder he must solve: “This is the Holy Grail”
Joining Craig in the Johnson movie is Josh O’Connor Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Wake Up Dead Man will be released on Dec. 12, in time for an awards run. Johnson has been Oscar-nominated nominated twice for his Knives Out films, one for original and another for adapted screenplay.
The original Knives Out film, which featured an ensemble cast that included Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ana de Armas, was released in theaters by Lionsgate and became a sensation. The follow-up, Glass Onion, was the first of two planned sequels for Netflix and starred Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe and Edward Norton. The streaming service acquired the property in a $469 million megadeal in 2021.