Rian Johnson’s film "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" has arrived on Netflix after a limited theatrical run, reuniting Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc for a theologically charged murder in small-town upstate New York that skewers hypocritical Christians and Donald Trump while centering on a feud between Father Jud and Monsignor Wicks over the hidden jewel Eve’s Apple. Critics have praised the ambitious ensemble cast, including Craig, Josh Brolin, and Josh O’Connor, and highlighted how the film blends social commentary, dark humor, and Gothic suspense around a domineering monsignor’s killing and a climax that literally hides a diamond inside a crucifix, even as some viewers question its long runtime and densely knotted, faith-over-greed ending. Speaking on Deadline’s Contenders panel in London and to Entertainment Weekly, Johnson said he only has basic, elemental, conceptual ideas for a potential fourth Knives Out movie, which he imagines as a darker, Poe-inspired Gothic tale that reacts to current cultural moments, while he also prepares a separate standalone science-fiction homage to 1970s paranoid thrillers.