"Rian Johnson's love letter to mystery movies (not to be confused with , his love letter to mystery TV shows) has already covered two subgenres. The first installment, Knives Out, is the classic inheritance squabble, while the second, Knives Out: Glass Onion, leaned harder on the critique of capitalism and satire of the class system. In the upcoming third chapter, Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) takes on something entirely new: a Gothic conundrum."
"Locked-room mysteries have been around as long as mystery stories themselves, but they always deliver something a little different: usually, the solution to the "impossible crime" is far stranger than your typical mystery. Take, for example, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," which featured someone murdered in their locked room. As it turns out, the actual murder weapon was a venomous snake slipped in through a vent."
Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise shifted from an inheritance squabble to satire of capitalism and class. The new installment, Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, relocates Benoit Blanc to a small-town parsonage where a claimed miracle becomes a murder puzzle. Msgr. Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) enters a sealed concrete box during a sermon and is found dead moments later. Congregants including a high-powered lawyer (Kerry Washington) and a famous author (Andrew Scott) are suspects. Blanc teams with priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor) to investigate an apparently immaculate locked-room crime. Locked-room mysteries often rely on unusually inventive solutions.
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