With Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , Rian Johnson takes his whodunnit franchise somewhere even deadlier than a billionaire’s island or a tech bro’s compound: a small-town Catholic parish. Streaming on Netflix as of December 12, 2025, the third Knives Out film follows Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc into a world where faith, hypocrisy, and an apparently “perfectly impossible crime” collide.

The story unfolds in the fictional upstate New York town of Chimney Rock, at a parish called Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. A young boxer-turned-priest, a vulgar monsignor, and a gallery of parishioners – a church lady, groundskeeper, lawyer, aspiring politician, doctor, writer, and cellist – all become suspects once blood is spilled inside the church. Drawing on his own Christian background an

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