Benoit Blanc, played excellently by Daniel Craig, is returning to Netflix this year to solve another “moirder” in Rian Johnson’s next Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man. After much teasing from the streamer and the director, fans now know when the threequel is expected to release on Netflix. Johnson kicked off his new murder-mystery franchise with the Oscar-nominated Knives Out in 2019, which introduced the world to Craig’s iconic detective. Benoit Blanc returned for a second time in 2021’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which streamed directly on Netflix. Johnson is looking to round out the Knives Out trilogy (which may be extended into a full franchise, based on the success of the upcoming threequel) with Wake Up Dead Man.
The upcoming ‘Knives Out’ sequel from Rian Johnson, ‘Wake Up Dead Man,’ gets a release date, and it’s a lot sooner than we expected. Read More