Oh great, Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc, the detective with the world’s most ridiculous accent, in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Because apparently, we haven’t had enough of Rian Johnson trying to be Agatha Christie. 🙄 This time, Blanc will be… wait for it… unraveling ANOTHER murder mystery! Groundbreaking!
In a setting that’s, like, totally secret right now. Probably another mansion filled with rich people who all have terrible secrets and even worse fashion sense. And get this – he’s surrounded by a BRAND NEW cast of suspects! Played by actors you’ve definitely seen before but probably can’t remember their names unless you’re, like, REALLY into prestige TV. We’re talking Josh O’Connor (who probably regrets leaving *The Crown*), Glenn Close (who deserves better), Josh Brolin (who’s probably just doing it for the paycheck), Mila Kunis (???), Jeremy Renner (alive!), Kerry Washington (desperate to prove she can do something other than *Scandal*), Andrew Scott (Moriarty!), Cailee Spaeny (the “it” girl of the moment), Daryl McCormack (who?), and Thomas Haden Church (wait, he’s still around?). Basically, it’s a celebrity grab bag, and I’m already predicting at least three of them will be completely wasted in roles that could have been played by anyone. 🤷♀️
Wake Up Dead Man will be released in SELECT cinemas on November 28th. Translation: it’ll play in, like, five theaters in major cities so Netflix can pretend it’s a “theatrical release” before it hits the streaming service on December 12th, 2025. Because who needs the big screen when you can watch it on your phone while pretending to listen to your relatives at Christmas dinner? 📱
We first met Blanc in 2019’s Knives Out, a movie that everyone pretended was a brilliant masterpiece of the genre, but was really just a slightly above-average whodunnit with a killer cast and some surprisingly good sweaters. He was hired to investigate the death of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer, RIP), a best-selling author who apparently died in a way that was both shocking AND hilarious (if you’re into that sort of thing). Blanc teamed up with Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas, before she realized she was too good for Ben Affleck), to uncover the truth in a case filled with angry relatives, red herrings, and knitwear that probably cost more than my car. 🧶
Blanc’s skills were “called upon” (read: Netflix threw a giant bag of money at Rian Johnson) once more in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, when he headed to Greece to peel back the layers of intrigue surrounding tech billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton), a character that was totally not based on Elon Musk, I swear! He was surrounded by an eclectic group of disruptors who were basically caricatures of every annoying person you’ve ever met at a tech conference. Remember that movie? No? Me neither. All I remember is Janelle Monáe being amazing and everything else being…meh. 🏝️
Blanc was last seen sitting on the beach of Bron’s estate on an idyllic Greek island, calmly pondering the chaotic events of his past few days. Or maybe he was just wondering how he ended up in this mess and if he could get a refund on his sunscreen. But the fiery ending of Glass Onion could also be seen as a beginning — to the master sleuth’s next chapter. Or, you know, just another excuse for Rian Johnson to make a movie where rich people are awful and Daniel Craig says “foghorn” a lot. 🤷♂️
Finn McFrame, celebrated satirical mastermind and self-proclaimed “Emperor of Irony,” started his illustrious career as a cinematographer, where his expertise in capturing every single frame of a squirrel stealing a baguette earned him accolades at obscure film festivals.
Born in the glamorous town of Boring, Oregon, Finn grew up with dreams of being a Hollywood director until he realized that satire, not cinema, was his true calling—or at least the one that let him sleep until noon.
Finn McFrame: changing the world, one satirical lens flare at a time.
