The biggest rule of a Knives Out mystery is, don’t expect the same thing as the last Knives Out mystery. The sun-soaked Glass Onion was a tonal switch-up from the autumnal family affair of Knives Out . And so, the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will mark a similarly significant pivot from Rian Johnson’s last outing – a darker, Gothic-toned tale nodding to Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, swapping the private Greek island setting for a pastoral New England town, where everyone’s faith is about to be tested. Into it all enters Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc, facing a case that’ll challenge him like never before, Johnson tells Empire .

As the first teaser made clear, there’s a religious slant to this third outing for Blanc, as a seemingly divin

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