(courtesy IMP Awards)
SNAPSHOT
Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. A continuation of the whodunit mystery comedy series that started with Knives Out (2019) and continued with Glass Onion (2022) on a Greek island. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, a sequel to Knives Out (2019), is once again both written and directed by the acclaimed American filmmaker Rian Johnson, director of the films Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, Knives Out, and Glass Onion previously, as well as the Poker Face series. Produced by Ram Bergman and Rian Johnson. With music from Nathan Johnson. (courtesy First Showing)
Murder mysteries have been a staple of my consumption of fiction since I was a kid.
I started at around 11 or 12 with all of the Agatha Christie mysteries – thanks to my dad who recognised a kindred voracious reader in me and suggested I give her novels a go (and yes, I’m a Miss Marple, not a Poirot fan) – and kept reading and watching right up to the present.
Now, full disclosure, I am not a massive consumer of crime stories any more but given a murder mystery with intriguing, occasionally OTT characters and a quirky premise and I am there with crime solving bells on.
I rarely guess the killer but that doesn’t matter; movies like Knives Out and Glass Onion are fun to watch and lose yourself in and I have no doubt Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will be any different when it opens for a limited time in theatres on 26 November with release on Netflix on 12 December.