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Final ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer Sets Theatrical Bow Before Netflix Launch

Festival praise highlights a darker, Gothic turn with Josh O’Connor’s priest central to Benoit Blanc’s “impossible” church murder case.

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Andrew Scott, from left, Mila Kunis, Daryl McCormack, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington and Cailee Spaeny appear in a scene from "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery."
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Overview

  • Netflix released the final trailer on Monday, with a limited theatrical run beginning Nov. 26 and streaming set for Dec. 12.
  • The preview sets up a “perfectly impossible” murder in an upstate New York parish that prompts police chief Geraldine Scott to enlist Benoit Blanc.
  • Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud Duplenticy is positioned as a key figure and suspected in the onstage death of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks.
  • Early reactions from TIFF and other festival screenings commend the film’s darker, Gothic direction for the third Benoit Blanc outing.
  • Writer-director Rian Johnson says this entry uses a more traditional whodunnit structure and he plans a break from the series to focus on an original project.