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How Rian Johnson’s Reckoning With Faith Led to ‘Wake Up Dead Man’
Friday, December 12, 2025Director Rian Johnson has always treated genre as a set of tools rather than a destination. With Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in his Knives Out series, those tools are still sharp — the clockwork plotting, the sprawling ensemble and Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc orbiting the mess like a curious moon — but…