TORONTO (AP) — For the third time, the knives were out at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rian Johnson on Saturday night premiered the third movie in his whodunit series, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” Like the previous two movies, “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” Johnson brought a cavalcade of stars to Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre for what was easily the hottest ticket of the festival.
“This is my favorite place to be in the world,” said Johnson, recalling the similar TIFF first weekend premieres of his first two mysteries. “Wake Up, Dead Man” is arguably Johnson's darkest, most intricate and most star-studded “Knives Out” mystery yet. It includes plenty of the quips that have characterized the first two movies (there are “Star Wars” and “Scooby Doo” references)