Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
BFI London Film Festival 2025 | Trailer: NOT YET REVIEWED | Comedy | Toronto International Film Festival 2025 | 2025
Original Title
Wake Up Dead Man- Director: Rian Johnson
- Writer: Rian Johnson
- Producer: Ram Bergman, Leopold Hughes, Rian Johnson
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He solved the murder of a patriarch of a bitter, feuding family. He entered the labyrinthine world of a tech bro to peel away the layers of deceit and treachery to reveal their murderer. Now Benoit Blanc faces his toughest challenge yet – he’s going to church! Rian Johnson’s detective mastermind, gamely portrayed by Daniel Craig, has become one of the great fictional crime solvers. Part-Agatha Christie detective, a la Poirot and Marple, with a little of Arthur Conan Doyle’s eccentric super sleuth Sherlock Holmes thrown in for good measure, yet Blanc is a singular creation.
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Cast & Characters
Daniel Craig ... Benoit Blanc
Josh O'Connor ... Rev. Jud Duplenticy
Glenn Close ... Martha Delacroix
Josh Brolin ... Msgr. Jefferson Micks
Mila Kunis ... Geraldine Scott
Jeremy Renner ... Dr. Nat Sharp
Kerry Washington ... Vera Draven
Andrew Scott ... Lee Ross
Cailee Spaeny ... Simone Vivane
Daryl McCormack ... Cy Draven
Thomas Haden Church ... Samson Holt
Kit Burden ... Boss
Annie Hamilton
Kerry Frances
Marcus Edward Bond (uncredited)