Overview
- Wake Up Dead Man ranked No. 1 worldwide on Netflix for Dec. 8–14 with about 20.2 million views and 49.2 million hours watched after its Dec. 12 streaming debut.
- Critics have broadly praised the film, which holds a roughly 92% Rotten Tomatoes score and highlights a deeper, faith-centered turn for Benoit Blanc.
- Rian Johnson’s latest centers on a locked-room case set in a rural church, foregrounding Blanc’s complicated relationship with religion without departing from the series’ standalone format.
- The release followed a brief theatrical window beginning Nov. 26 before moving to Netflix, where it quickly topped the platform’s movie charts.
- Johnson’s two-film Netflix pact concludes with this entry, with franchise rights retained by Johnson and producer Ram Bergman, and any fourth film described as conceptual rather than imminent.