Knives Out director Rian Johnson and his detective star Daniel Craig were looking to shake things up a bit when they sat down to plot the crime yarn franchise’s next entry after filming their ‘big and broad’ 2022 comedy sequel Glass Onion.

‘We thought it could be fun to pull it down to earth a little bit for the next one. My translation for how to do that was to find something personal to write about,’ Johnson tells Metro – and that’s how Wake Up Dead Man was first conceived.

While still largely a humorous whodunnit in spirit, this film goes a bit darker (but cosier) with its crime setting, adding in a large dollop of religion with its Catholic Church community of characters in smalltown Upstate New York.

‘I grew up very Christian, and I’m not a believer anymore, so it’s complicated – a

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