How to watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in New Zealand
Benoit Blanc returns for another stat-studded whodunnit.
Benoit Blanc is back! Daniel Craig’s suave sleuth returns in a new murder mystery by the current king of the genre, Rian Johnson.
How to watch Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in New Zealand
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is screening in New Zealand cinemas from November 27, 2025, before streaming exclusively on Netflix from December 12, 2025.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
What is Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery about?
Details are understandably thin on the ground, but we understand that this latest adventure sees Daniel Craig’s Southern-fried detective Benoit Blanc in the fictional town of Chimney Rock in upstate New York, where the Catholic parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude is run by the charismatic Monsignor Jefferson Wicks. When the fire-and-brimstone priest turns up dead, it’s up to our boy Benoit to figure out whodunnit and why.
As ever, the answer will require some savvy detective work, with Blanc winnowing through a murderer’s row of great actors to get to the truth.
The cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
We’ve got Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc; Josh O’Connor as Reverend Jud Duplenticy, who seems to be our main suspect; Josh Brolin as charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks; Glenn Close as Martha Delacroix, a devout church lady and Wick’s right-hand woman; Mila Kunis as police chief Geraldine Scott; Jeremy Renner as town doctor Nat Sharp; Kerry Washington as lawyer Vera Draven; Andrew Scott as author Lee Ross; Cailee Spaeny as disabled former concert cellist Simone Vivane; Daryl McCormack as aspiring politician Cy Draven; and Thomas Haden Church as groundskeeper Samson Holt.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery trailer
Why we’re excited about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The exploits of Benoit Blanc are always a good time. They’re clever mysteries with star-studded casts, and a concrete sense of playfulness that never gets mired in self-seriousness. We cannot wait.
