Wake Up Dead Man is the latest Knives Out mystery film from writer-director Rian Johnson. In this film we find Father Jud Duplenticy (Joh O'Connor) under suspicion of the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Joshj Brolin), stabbed in the back in a storage closet during his Good Friday service. The ensemble this time is played by Glenn Close as Martha, a lifelong servant of the church, Jeremy Renner as local physician Dr. Nat, Kerry Washington as attorney Vera, Andrew Scott as author-in-exile Lee, Cailee Spaeny as Simone, a disabled woman and the church's biggest donor, Daryl McCormack as a failed politician heel, Thomas Haden Church as Samson the groundskeeper and Martha's lover, and Mila Kunis as the local police chief. Daniel Craig stars once again as Benoit Blanc, a private detective who takes the case to prove Jud's innocence.

Time Stamps:

• (01:12) Exposed
• (24:32) The Third Man
• (40:25) The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
• (51:57) Wake Up Dead Man
• (1:25:27) Spoilers
• (2:04:21) Next Time: Marty Supreme & 2025 catch up

Works Cited:

• Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis: Backlash over support for rapist Danny Masterson (Emma Saunders, 2023)
• Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008)
• Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005)
• "Come On Up to the House"(Tom Waits, 1999)
• Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024)
• Daughter of God (Gee Malik Linton, 2016)
• The Elegiac Heart: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Filmmaker (James Quandt, 2023)
• Exposed (Declan Dale, 2016)
• First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
• FIVE MINUTES, MR. WELLES: THE THIRD MAN inspires an actor's homage | Cinezine Kane (2015)
• 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
• Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
• The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964) - Movie Review: Alternate Ending (Tim Brayton, 2009)
• Hello Brooklyn #12 - Gee Linton (Malcolm Thomas, 2017)
• Hi I'm Gee Malik Linton, I directed Keanu Reeves in Daughter of God. Ask me anything. : r/KeanuBeingAwesome
• Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007)
• Interview: Vincent D'Onofrio - IGN (Jeff Otto, 2012)
• "It Made Me Angry, But Good Angry": Gee Malik Linton's Restored DAUGHTER OF GOD (James Kenny, 2023)
• Jeremy Renner denies filmmaker Yi Zhou's misconduct allegations - Los Angeles Times (Mark Olsen, 2025)
• Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)
• Knive's Out's Rian Johnson Says He Will Always Be a Youth Group Kid (Tyler Huckabee, 2025)
• Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
• Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009)
• Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)
• Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung, 2024)
• The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
• Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025)

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