‘Knives Out 3’ is called ‘Wake Up Dead Man.’ Here’s everything we know so far, including when it hits Netflix.

Daniel Craig is returning as the charming Southern detective Benoit Blanc in the upcoming “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Dead Man.”

Audiences fell head over heels for Rian Johnson‘s murder mystery “Knives Out” when it arrived in theaters in 2019, and it earned a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

After making $312 million at the box office, it was no surprise when a bidding war started for the rights to sequels. Ultimately, Netflix paid a reported $450 million for the franchise, and Johnson delivered 2022’s “Glass Onion.” 

In May 2024, Johnson revealed the sequel’s title on X, which Blanc described as his “most dangerous case yet.”

The movie will play in theaters starting Thanksgiving weekend, and will be available on Netflix beginning December 12.

Here’s everything we know about “Wake Up Dead Man.”

Eammon Jacobs and Olivia Singh contributed to previous versions of this post.

“Wake Up Dead Man” is coming to Netflix in December.

During its annual “Tudum” event on May 31, Netflix announced that “Wake Up Dead Man” will drop on December 12.

The announcement came with a short teaser, which showed Blanc investigating a murder involving a Catholic priest.

Jeremy Renner and Mila Kunis are among the actors joining Daniel Craig in “Wake Up Dead Man.”

In May 2024, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny were the first actors to join “Wake Up Dead Man.”

Josh O’Connor starred opposite Zendaya in 2024’s buzzy sports romance, “Challengers,” while Spaeny played Rain in “Alien: Romulus.”

The new teaser confirmed that the cast includes “Fleabag” and “Ripley” star Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Glenn Close, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Josh Brolin, and Thomas Haden Church.

Johnson told Variety in October 2022 that he’ll keep making more movies about Blanc for as long as possible. 

“If each one of these can really be what Agatha Christie did, if it can be not just in a totally new location and a new cast, but also trying something exciting, I’ll keep doing it as long as Daniel and I are having a good time,” he said. “I’ll keep making these as long as they let me.”

The James Bond actor echoed the same sentiment in an interview with Deadline in November 2022.

“Rian seems to me to be very excited about getting on with the next one. He’s already got some ideas, and they sound to me to be really interesting, so I’m going to let him just get on with that,” Craig said.

“I mean, if people are interested, then we’ll make them,” he continued. “But if there ever came a point where either Rian and I thought we were just churning them out, I think we would back away. I mean, I just don’t think that’s what either of us want to do in life. Unless people are getting genuine fun out of them, forget it.”

“Wake Up Dead Man” takes place back on American soil.

One of the most important ingredients of a whodunit is an interesting location.

“Knives Out” is set in a quirky mansion in Massachusetts, while “Glass Onion” takes place on a Greek island owned by Edward Norton’s egotistical billionaire, Miles Bron.

When BI spoke to Johnson back in December 2022, he revealed that “Wake Up Dead Man” will be set in the US.

“I want it to be in America. There’s a lot of tempting things of going to Paris or the Alps but I feel it’s really important that these are American movies,” he said.

“Even with ‘Glass Onion,’ it’s set overseas but it’s a group of Americans who are trapped on an island together, so bringing it back to somewhere a little closer to home I think could be a good thing for the next one,” Johnson added.

The trailer for “Wake Up Dead Man” shows Josh Brolin’s character is the victim.

Every whodunit has to start with a death, and the trailer for “Wake Up Dead Man” doesn’t waste any time revealing that Josh Brolin’s character is the unlucky victim.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the movie, but the trailer implies that Blanc will set out to solve the murder of a priest (Brolin) by looking into the lives of a young priest (Josh O’Connor) and a colorful collection of individuals who last saw the victim (Scott, Washington, Close, Renner, and Church).

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