{"id":40964,"date":"2026-01-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40964"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:14:43","slug":"wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery-2025-written-directed-by-rian-johnson-starring-daniel-craig-josh-oconnor-glenn-close-josh-brolin-mila-kunis-and-jeremy-renner-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40964","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wake Up Dead Man&#8221;: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) written &amp; directed by Rian Johnson, starring Daniel Craig, Josh O&#8217;Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis and Jeremy Renner \/ Z- View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z011226zview_wakeupdeadman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Rian Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Rian Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Daniel Craig, Josh O&#8217;Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, James Faulkner, Noah Segan, Kit Burden <\/strong>and <strong>Jeffrey Wright.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>He works in mysterious ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benoit Blanc is asked to help solve a murder that occurred at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, a rural parish in upstate New York.\u00a0 Jefferson Wicks, the controversial and charismatic Monsigner was stabbed in the back with a devil&#8217;s head knife.\u00a0 Wicks was murdered in the middle of his sermon. He briefly stepped into a closet where he was killed.\u00a0 Wicks had been in full view of the assembly.\u00a0 No one else was in the closet and there were no other entrances or secret passageways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jud Duplenticy, the new assistant Priest, is the main suspect.\u00a0 Jud claims his innocence and reluctantly works with Benoit to figure out who pulled off an impossible murder.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benoit Blanc is this generation&#8217;s Columbo.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wake Up Dead Man<\/em> is my favorite of the three <em>Knives Out<\/em> Mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Brolin and Glenn Close shine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 5 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z011226zview_wakeupdeadman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Director: Rian Johnson Screenplay: Rian Johnson Stars: Daniel Craig, Josh O&#8217;Connor,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40965,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40964\/revisions\/40965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}