Get up, launch date. At Netflix Tudum 2025: The Dwell Occasion, the streamer introduced that author and director Rian Johnson’s third installment within the “Knives Out” collection will debut on Friday, December 12. Johnson additionally previewed footage from “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller,” which sees Daniel Craig returning as Benoit Blanc alongside Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis, Thomas Haden Church, Glenn Shut, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Josh O’Connor and Daryl McCormack.
“That is the third Benoit Blanc film that we’ve made. And one factor that we attempt to do — that we attempt to do with every considered one of them — is to maintain the viewers guessing,” Johnson stated on the occasion. “It’s actually necessary for us to determine new methods each time, in order that simply while you assume you’ve got it found out, a brand new twist comes alongside that you just weren’t anticipating. And that’s what makes these motion pictures particular.”
Johnson has been a longtime advocate of theatrical releases, and the unique “Knives Out” movie, distributed by Lionsgate, was a sleeper hit in 2019, grossing over $300 million worldwide. Its sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller,” nonetheless, was picked up by Netflix and solely given a restricted, 696-screen launch — grossing $15 million in only one week — earlier than transferring completely to Netflix on Dec. 23, 2022.
Johnson advised Enterprise Insider earlier this month that he didn’t assume theatrical releases have been going anyplace.
“We’ve seen, in case you put a film folks wish to see within the theaters, they’ll present up for it, and that have of being in a full home and having that have is so necessary,” Johnson stated. “It’s one thing that I like and I would like extra of on the planet.”
However Netflix has had a cagey relationship with theaters. Final September, co-CEO Ted Sarandos stated on the Royal Tv Society’s London Conference that theatrical releases are a “pretty inadequate solution to distribute some motion pictures,” in response to THR.
Benoit Blanc himself beforehand said he hoped “Wake Up Lifeless Man” would keep in theaters longer than its processor.
“The folks I communicate to — the followers, I suppose — all they wish to do is take their households and go see it on the cinemas,” Craig stated.
The cryptic sneak preview, stayed true to the tease Johnson posted a 12 months in the past, when he celebrated the “malleable” nature of the whodunit.
“There’s an entire tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and attending to discover that vary is likely one of the most enjoyable issues about making Benoit Blanc motion pictures,” he wrote.
“Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller” debuts on Friday, December 12. Watch the sneak preview under.