We’ve put collectively a listing of the whole lot we find out about Wake Up Useless Man, the third Knives Out thriller movie
The collection of homicide mysteries that started with the 2019 movie Knives Out and continued with the 2022 movie Glass Onion is ready to maintain on going with Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, which has author/director Rian Johnson again on the helm. Johnson and his collaborators are being very secretive about this mission proper now, however there’s a whole lot of hype for it – so we figured this could be a great time to start out assembling a listing of Every little thing We Know About Wake Up Useless Man. Right here we go:
TITLE
Johnson acquired the title Knives Out from a Radiohead music. When it got here time to make the sequel Glass Onion, he acquired the title from a music by The Beatles. So it’s solely becoming that the third movie within the franchise have a song-inspired title as properly. However whereas Radiohead and The Beatles have been from England, the band that impressed the third title originates from Eire. The band is U2, and so they launched a music known as “Wake Up Dead Man” again in 1997. We most likely shouldn’t count on to glean a lot in regards to the movie from the lyrics, even when Glass Onion did really function a glass onion and Johnson stated the title would give a touch as to the place the story goes… however we will look them over and check out. The lyrics have somebody who feels alone on this planet crying out to Jesus Christ, hoping to earn a spot in Heaven once they attain the top of their life. The refrain, in fact, provides us the road “Wake Up Dead Man.” And one significantly intriguing verse goes like this: “Were you just around the corner? Did you think to try and warn her? Or are you working on something new? If there’s an order in all of this disorder, is it like a tape recorder? Can we rewind it just once more?”
Some followers have the sensation that Wake Up Useless Man could be darker than the earlier two films, whereas others are leaning into the concept it might be a musical, since Johnson is a giant fan of Broadway musicals.
One factor we all know is that Johnson isn’t comfortable about these movies having A Knives Out Thriller as their subtitles, as he feels it will be extra applicable to name them A Benoit Blanc Thriller. However Knives Out is what he’s caught with.
STORY
We don’t know something in regards to the story, which is the way it must be if you’re wanting ahead to a thriller. We will most likely count on someone to get killed sooner or later, and will probably be as much as personal investigator Benoit Blanc to determine “who done it.” Regardless of the story could also be, the movie is more likely to have a unique tone from Glass Onion, which itself had a unique tone from Knives Out, being larger and extra over-the-top than its predecessor. Johnson has stated that the third movie can be “very, very different” from Glass Onion, and advised Selection that “The goal is to strike out in a completely new direction tonally and thematically.” He lately took to his X account to say, “I like the whole lot about whodunnits, however one of many issues I like most is how malleable the style is. There’s a complete tonal spectrum from John Dickson Carr to Agatha Christie, and attending to discover that vary is among the most enjoyable issues about making Benoit Blanc films.“
CAST
Any Knives Out thriller has to have a formidable solid. On the coronary heart of every movie, now we have Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, after which Johnson builds superior supporting casts round him. Knives Out co-starred Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Frank Oz, Riki Lindhome, Christopher Plummer, M. Emmet Walsh, Noah Segan, and extra. Glass Onion had Craig sharing the display with Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, and Noah Segan, with cameos from the likes of Ethan Hawke, Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yo-Yo Ma, Jake Tapper, and Serena Williams. Joseph Gordon-Levitt additionally had vocal cameos in each movies.
For the reason that announcement of the title, we’ve been bombarded with Wake Up Useless Man casting information. This time round, Craig can be co-starring with Josh Brolin (No Nation for Outdated Males), Josh O’Connor (The Crown), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Andrew Scott (Ripley), Kerry Washington (Little Fires In all places), Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), Mila Kunis (That 70s Present), Glenn Shut (Deadly Attraction), and Jeremy Renner (Avengers: Endgame) – whose likeness was featured on a sizzling sauce in Glass Onion. Particulars on the characters they’ll be taking part in are being saved underneath wraps. We’re additionally unsure if Hugh Grant (Notting Hill) can be displaying up as Phillip, Benoit’s home accomplice who had a cameo within the earlier movie.
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) has let it’s identified that he desires to be in Wake Up Useless Man, however he hasn’t gotten his want up to now.
TWO-PICTURE DEAL
Whereas Knives Out was a Lionsgate launch, the franchise made the bounce to the Netflix streaming service when Netflix provided Craig, Johnson, and Johnson’s producing accomplice Ram Bergman 469 million {dollars} to make two Knives Out sequels for them. The primary was Glass Onion and Wake Up Useless Man would be the second, so the deal can be wrapped up and we’ll have to attend and see if Johnson and Craig wish to re-team for any extra Benoit Blanc mysteries sooner or later.
Johnson has beforehand advised Selection, “If each one of these can really be what Agatha Christie did, if it can be not just in a totally new location and a new cast, but also trying something exciting, I’ll keep doing it as long as Daniel [Craig] and I are having a good time. I’ll keep making these as long as they let me.” He additionally advised Jess Cagle, “The identical means Agatha Christie wrote a bunch of Poirot novels, we will do this with Blanc and hold making new mysteries, you already know, entire new solid, entire new location, entire new thriller, it’s simply one other Beniot Blanc thriller. There’s so many various issues you may do with it.“
PRODUCTION AND RELEASE
On Could twenty fourth, Johnson stated Wake Up Useless Man can be heading into manufacturing quickly, and when he introduced the title, the announcement video promised that we’ll be seeing the movie someday in 2025.
And that’s the whole lot we find out about Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller… up to now…
