Something wicked this way comes! No, it's not another clip of a singing Reform MP — even we wouldn't be so dastardly as to inflict that upon you, de
Something wicked this way comes! No, it’s not another clip of a singing Reform MP — even we wouldn’t be so dastardly as to inflict that upon you, dear reader. Rather, it is the brand spanking up-to-date official trailer for Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man, which is set to see everyone’s favourite Southern sleuther Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) tackle ‘a miraculous church-based murder,’ aided it would seem by one Josh O’Connor. Ahead of the murder mystery’s UK premiere at the 69th BFI London Film Festival next month, Netflix has just dropped our first proper look at Blanc and Father Jud (O’Connor) in action — and you can check it out below;
Oh, boy — it looks like we’re in for a doozy! From the Gothic accoutrements of Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, to the stunningly stacked ensemble (Andrew Scott! Glenn Close! Jeremy Renner! Mila Kunis! Cailee Spaeny! Darryl McCormack! Thomas Haden Church!), to the locked-room mystery — Josh Brolin is a sermon giver who appears to be offed from within a sealed concrete chamber, in front of his whole parish — all signs point towards another classic Benoit Blanc caper.
And amid the Jeremy Renner having a stream-of-thought existential crisis, shifty looks exchanged, and shining gemstones of it all, there’s Blanc and Jud. And, if this first look at their active is anything to go by, the combo of the Foghorn Leghorn accented sleuther, here on more pensive form, and O’Connor’s potty-mouthed New Yorker priest (“Benoit frickin’ Blanc and I are gonna ask you some questions, and then you’re gonna answer ’em, and then we’re gonna get to the bottom of who killed Monsignor Wicks!” blasts off O’Connor at an impressive clip) is set to give the Blancverse a few juicy up-to-date beats to play along the way.
When Empire spoke to Johnson for our Running Man issue, the murder-mystery maestro revealed to us that this third Knives Out joint is “very much Jud’s journey.” We look forward to seeing exactly where that journey leads — and on whose hands lies the blood of Brolin’s Monsignor Wicks — when Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery hits up the London Film Festival on 8 October, launches in select cinemas on 26 November, and then makes its global Netflix debut on 12 December.
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