The knives are out forJosh Brolin. He’s just become the latest actor to join the star-studded firmament ofRian Johnson’s latest Benoit Blanc murder mystery,Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Brolin is the newest high-profile addition to the film’s cast, according toThe Hollywood Reporter, and like the previous two installments of the franchise, the film will be headlined byDaniel Craigas eccentric detective Blanc.
Brolin joins an all-star cast of murder suspects, red herrings, and maybe a murder victim.Josh O’Connor(Challengers),Cailee Spaeny(Civil War),Andrew Scott(Ripley),Kerry Washington(Scandal),Glenn Close(The Wife),Jeremy Renner(Mayor of Kingstown), andMila Kunis(That ’70s Show) have all been announced as starring in the film, which is slated to hit Netflix in 2025. No plot details about the film, the third in Johnson’s series of throwback whodunits, have been revealed, although presumably the Southern-fried Blanc will once again be confronted with a litany of suspicious oddballs as he tries to unravel a seemingly unsolvable case, as he did in 2019’sKnives Outand its 2022 sequel,Glass Onion.
What Is Josh Brolin Working On Now?
Brolin has kept busy since dissolving half of the MCU with a snap of his fingers as theaubergine space tyrant ThanosinAvengers: Infinity WarandEndgame. He currently stars as rancher Royal Abbott in the science-fiction-tinged Western seriesOuter Range; the series' second season, one episode of which sees Brolin make his directorial debut, premiered on Amazon Prime Video earlier this year.
He starred as House Atriedes weapons master Gurney Halleck in both films ofDenis Villeneuve’sDuneduology and evenco-wrote a song for the second film’s soundtrackafter having a musical scene deleted from its predecessor. He also reprised the role of Thanos in two episodes of Marvel’s animatedWhat If?series. He is next set to star alongsidePeter Dinklageas a mismatched pair of twins in the crime comedyBrothers, which is slated to bereleased on Prime Video this fall. He has also signed on to star alongsideJulia GarnerinWeapons, the mysterious new horror film coming fromBarbariandirectorZach Cregger.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mysterywill be written and directed byRian Johnson. He is also producing the film with longtime collaboratorRam Bergmanvia their T-Street banner.Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mysterywill premiere on Netflix in 2025;no precise release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
In “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” detective Benoit Blanc returns to solve the murder of a famous musician whose death shocks the entertainment world. As Blanc interrogates a diverse array of suspects, each with their own secrets and potential motives, he navigates through layers of deceit and betrayal. The investigation leads Blanc to confront unexpected challenges and unravel a complex puzzle that ties together the victim’s past and present.
