Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is a 2025 film directed by Rian Johnson. It is the third film in the Knives Out or Benoit Blanc mysteries. Father Jud, a Genius Bruiser boxer turned Catholic priest, is reassigned to a remote parish after punching out a deacon who made offensive remarks.. A page for describing Characters: Wake Up Dead Man (2025). Benoit Blanc Mysteries character indexKnives Out | Glass Onion | Wake Up Dead Man BEWARE OF.
How Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig keep making these clever, old-school whodunnits so compelling and entertaining is truly a mystery.. Wake Up Dead Man (marketed as Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) is a 2025 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the third film in the Knives Out series. The film stars Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc [4][5] as he investigates the death of a Catholic priest against the backdrop of a missing inheritance. The ensemble cast.