• Wake Up Dead Man, AKA Knives Out 3, is getting a theatrical release!

    Everybody! Flood the theaters! Let's see this thing on the big screen!

    September 3, 2025 By 

    I’ve got amazing news for you! Rian Johnson, the director of countless crime masterpieces (including Knives Out, and Glass Onion), has announced that his third Benoit Blanc film, Wake Up Dead Man, is getting a theatrical release!

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    Oh, and there’s a poster!

    Here’s the announcement.


    SO, yeah… Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery premieres November 26 in theaters! And on Netflix on December 12.

    But see it in theaters with us! Let’s flood the cinema palaces and give this film the warm welcome it deserves!

    Stay tuned for more of our Knives Out series coverage!

    Olivia Rutigliano
    Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads, and a book editor at their parent company Grove Atlantic. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the segment "Culture Schlock" of the Lit Hub Podcast. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
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