Netflix has revealed that it will be releasing the third film in writer-director Rian Johnson’s brilliant Knives Out series in UK cinemas. The film, officially titled Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, will release in select UK and Irish cinemas on November 28, 2025. It will then stream globally on Netflix from December 12, 2025.
Johnson’s latest film brings Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to a small hamlet in leafy upstate New York, where eager young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) has been sent to assist the local priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). A charismatic firebrand, Wicks tends to a flock that includes Martha Delacroix (Glenn Close), Samson Holt (Thomas Haden Church), Vera Draven (Kerry Washington), Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack), Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), and Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny).
The streamer has also debuted a new poster for the film featuring the main cast:
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery stars Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack and Thomas Haden Church.
