Overview

• The film will premiere at TIFF on September 6, open the BFI London Film Festival on October 8, play a limited theatrical run in November, and stream globally on Netflix on December 12, 2025.
• Set in a pastoral New England town, the mystery centers on a church community confronted by a death presented as an impossible, almost miraculous event.
• Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc teams up with Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud, with Johnson saying Blanc undertakes his most significant personal journey of the series.
• Johnson describes a darker, Gothic tone influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories, and John Dickson Carr’s locked-room logic puzzles.
• The ensemble includes Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church, following a London shoot completed in mid-2024.