Benoit Blanc is back on the case again. During Netflix’s Tudum event this weekend, the streamer revealed the first teaser for “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” the third installment in Rian Johnson’s hit whodunit series. Moreover, the company revealed that the Agatha Christie-like murder mystery comedy arrives on Netflix on December 12.
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“Wake Up Dead Man” follows “Knives Out” (2019) and “Glass Onion” (2022), both of which earned critical acclaim and commercial success. While plot details remain tightly under wraps, the teaser suggests that the film will offer a darker tone than its predecessors, potentially pushing the eccentric detective into even more dangerous and shadowy territory.
As with previous films in the series, the newest “Knives Out” entry boasts an impressive cast that spills out like a famous who’s who at a dinner party. Joining Daniel Craig as the savvy and sartorially stylish detective are Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Daryl McCormack, and Josh Brolin.
The teaser doesn’t give away much in terms of story, but it does promise a “most dangerous case yet” for Benoit Blanc.
“We’ve been very lucky with each of these movies to have gathered some of my favorite actors on the planet, and that’s absolutely the case here,” Johnson told Tudum. “They’re also all lovely folks who get along, which is the dinner party aspect of it. When you’re making an ensemble movie like this, I think that’s key.”
Will there be more “Knives Out” installments after this?
“As long as Daniel [Craig] still wants to keep doing it and as long as we have an idea that, to us, feels not just like cranking another one out, but feels genuinely exciting and scary like, ‘Oh, wow, could we pull that off?’ I love the genre. It’s endlessly malleable, and so it holds endless possibilities,” Johnson recently told Collider, but said with a caveat that he has a new idea in his head, “to write is an original that’s not a mystery at all. It’s a totally different genre,” so we shall see.
Watch the teaser trailer for ‘Wake Up Dead Man’, which arrives on Netflix on December 12, 2025.
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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