Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

New Orleans, summer heat, jazz drifting from a cathedral. A charismatic monsignor's congregation is restless, a young priest is suspicious, and a murder occurs with no clear suspect. Rian Johnson puts his clever spin on the whodunit genre.

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Rian Johnson directed Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in 2025. See Rian Johnson's full filmography, where to start with Rian Johnson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Rian Johnson.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was released in 2025 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 145 minutes.