Wake Up Dead Man is somehow already filming
Rian Johnson shared a first look image of a shaggy Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc today
It seems like Benoit Blanc might have let himself go a bit after (spoiler alert!) bearing witness to the destruction of the Mona Lisa at the end of Glass Onion. Rian Johnson shared a first look of Daniel Craig in costume as the usually prim and proper Southern detective for Wake Up Dead Man—the upcoming third installment in the Knives Out series—today, and there’s one major notable difference for the character.
That’s right: it’s tough out there these days, and apparently even premiere detective Benoit Blanc doesn’t have money for a proper haircut anymore. Now, we still don’t know anything about the actual plot of Wake Up Dead Man, other than the fact that it’s supposedly Blanc’s “most dangerous case yet,” according to a short teaser released by Netflix. Maybe it’s set in the past. Maybe Blanc is infiltrating and investigating the cast of a play after one of their company is murdered and the hair isn’t real at all, which would also fit with the title card’s vaguely gothic styling. We probably won’t know for a while.
What we do know from the same post is that Wake Up Dead Man has officially started filming, mere days after wrapping up one of the most star-studded and wide-ranging casting rollouts since everyone in Hollywood became a Barbie in 2022. Considering just how much this film has already been publicized, it wouldn’t be surprising if we got similar photos of Daniel Craig’s new co-stars in their own unexpected wigs over the next few weeks or even days. He’ll be joined in the 2025 film by Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, Daryl McCormack, and Glenn Close.