The third entry in Rian Johnson's popular whodunnit film series Knives Out is scheduled to release on Netflix later this year. As the streamer unveils its entire 2025 slate, a first-look photograph from the upcoming film has been shared.
The image shows Josh O'Connor and Daniel Craig standing between church pews in what appears to be an imposing cathedral, complete with a balcony in the background and stained glass windows. Also of interest, the photo caption for the Netflix photo shares that O'Connor's character, a priest, is named "Jud Duplencity."
Craig is, of course, returning as leading private detective Benoit Blanc, the man who solved the mysteries at the center of Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Netflix says this movie features Blanc's "most dangerous case yet."
Johnson returns to write and direct. Apart from Craig and O'Connor, the third film stars Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Glenn Close, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, and Kerry Washington.
After the incredible success of the first Knives Out, which was released in 2019 and grossed over $312 million at the box office, Netflix swooped in and purchased the rights to Johnson's two follow-up films. The sequel came out in 2022.
Although Netflix only purchased the rights to Glass Onion and Wake Up Dead Man, Johnson and Craig have previously said they'd love to continue making Knives Out movies for as long as they can.
Chatting with Variety, Craig said if Johnson "keeps writing them, I'll keep doing them."
“To me, the idea for the next one — and I’m going to try to stay in this state of mind as I write it — it’s not about trying to top the previous one, it’s about just trying to create something that surprises us and thus hopefully will surprise the audience and thus delight the audience," Johnson said.
In many ways, the Knives Out movies have been filling the void of Agatha Christie adaptations, of which there are many, but not that many that are as excellent as Knives Out. In particular, the last big-screen adaptations, A Haunting in Venice and Death on the Nile, were rather disappointing. Similarly, we haven't had many new Sherlock Holmes stories as of late either, so Knives Out is giving us a unique spin on the classic mystery-solving DNA.
Thus far, no plot details have been revealed for Wake Up Dead Man, but the title itself is a reference to a U2 song.