Wake Up Dead Man is the latest Knives Out mystery film from writer-director Rian Johnson. In this film we find Father Jud Duplenticy (Joh O'Connor) under suspicion of the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Joshj Brolin), stabbed in the back in a storage closet during his Good Friday service. The ensemble this time is played by Glenn Close as Martha, a lifelong servant of the church, Jeremy Renner as local physician Dr. Nat, Kerry Washington as attorney Vera, Andrew Scott as author-in-exile Lee, Cailee Spaeny as Simone, a disabled woman and the church's biggest donor, Daryl McCormack as a failed politician heel, Thomas Haden Church as Samson the groundskeeper and Martha's lover, and Mila Kunis as the local police chief. Daniel Craig stars once again as Benoit Blanc, a private detective who takes the case to prove Jud's innocence.
Time Stamps:
- (01:12) Exposed
- (24:32) The Third Man
- (40:25) The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
- (51:57) Wake Up Dead Man
- (1:25:27) Spoilers
- (2:04:21) Next Time: Marty Supreme & 2025 catch up
Works Cited:
- Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis: Backlash over support for rapist Danny Masterson (Emma Saunders, 2023)
- Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008)
- Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
- "Come On Up to the House"(Tom Waits, 1999)
- Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024)
- Daughter of God (Gee Malik Linton, 2016)
- The Elegiac Heart: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Filmmaker (James Quandt, 2023)
- Exposed (Declan Dale, 2016)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
- FIVE MINUTES, MR. WELLES: THE THIRD MAN inspires an actor's homage | Cinezine Kane (2015)
- 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
- Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
- The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964) - Movie Review: Alternate Ending (Tim Brayton, 2009)
- Hello Brooklyn #12 - Gee Linton (Malcolm Thomas, 2017)
- Hi I'm Gee Malik Linton, I directed Keanu Reeves in Daughter of God. Ask me anything. : r/KeanuBeingAwesome
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
- Interview: Vincent D'Onofrio - IGN (Jeff Otto, 2012)
- "It Made Me Angry, But Good Angry": Gee Malik Linton's Restored DAUGHTER OF GOD (James Kenny, 2023)
- Jeremy Renner denies filmmaker Yi Zhou's misconduct allegations - Los Angeles Times (Mark Olsen, 2025)
- Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)
- Knive's Out's Rian Johnson Says He Will Always Be a Youth Group Kid (Tyler Huckabee, 2025)
- Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
- Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009)
- Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)
- Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung, 2024)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
- Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025)
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