By Marie-Louise Gumuchian

LONDON (Reuters) -Daniel Craig’s third outing as the charismatic detective Benoit Blanc in “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” opened the London Film Festival on Wednesday, kicking off 12 days of red carpets, screenings and talks with the likes of Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Chloe Zhao.

Craig led co-stars including Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis on the red carpet for the latest “Knives Out” whodunit, which has a more gothic and darker tone than 2019’s “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion” released in 2022.

“They’re all different from each other, which is what I think we set out to do … we wanted them all to be standalone so that each one had a different flavour,” Craig told Reuters of the three films.

Asked what it was like to take on the role on

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