"TORONTO - Benoit Blanc is back, and he's taking his Southern sleuthing skills to church. The new "Knives Out" film, titled "Wake Up Dead Man," is a strong evolution to the franchise, bringing Daniel Craig's rational mystery-busting to the realm of the spiritual. After dissecting themes of greed through the lenses of family and tech opulence in the first two films, this time the focus is on the spiritual, building off the trope of the locked room mystery."
""With this third one, we're going back to the roots of the genre. And the roots of the genre actually lie in Edgar Allan Poe, and it's a little gothic. We're going to go by way of Poe into some John Dickson Carr. We're gonna veer into some G.K. Chesterton with Father Brown mysteries, and we're going back to church. Can I get an amen?!""
Benoit Blanc returns to solve a murder set in a rural New York City church in Wake Up Dead Man. The story centers on young Rev. Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), who seeks redemption after killing an opponent in a boxing ring and is reassigned when old rage resurfaces. Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) leads the parish with fiery, controversial sermons. A murder disrupts the congregation and places every parishioner under suspicion. The film shifts the franchise's focus from greed and tech opulence to spiritual themes, embracing gothic and locked-room influences from Poe, John Dickson Carr, and G.K. Chesterton.
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