Knives Out 3: Wake Up Dead Man to Stream on Netflix Dec 12, 2025

Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise is preparing for its third installment, Wake Up Dead Man, which will stream on Netflix on December 12, 2025. The film reunites Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc with a new partner, Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud, as Blanc is drawn into a murder mystery set in a small New England parish. Johnson says the case will push Blanc in ways the previous two mysteries did not, and he emphasizes that Blanc’s personal journey will be the film’s core.

Wake Up Dead Man centers on a murder framed as an almost miraculous impossibility, a premise Johnson describes as the opposite of Blanc’s rational, problem-solving approach. In Johnson’s words, Blanc will confront a mystery “that could never have happened,” and the detective, who normally approaches every case with a calm confidence, must engage with the evidence in a markedly different way. The setting—a church community in a tight-knit town—places all suspects within the parish, creating a distinct backdrop and social dynamic for Blanc’s inquiry.

The film will pair Blanc with Father Jud, continuing the franchise tradition of Blanc collaborating with a local ally. Johnson confirms that the partnership “is...