Netflix has launched a brand new trailer for Wake Up Lifeless Man, the most recent chapter in Rian Johnson‘s thriller collection starring Benoit Blanc, the world’s biggest detective of ambiguous Southern origin. Take a look:
As evidenced by the trailer, the story issues an “unattainable” locked thriller of seemingly supernatural origin, evoking the nice works of John Dickson Carr, Seishi Yokomizo, and Hanna-Barbera. That is thrilling in itself, because the subgenre has lengthy been thought of radioactive in Hollywood for being troublesome to extraordinarily troublesome to craft, necessitating lengthy, dialogue-heavy scenes of the solid coming on the drawback from all angles, and for simply being only a bit too Scooby-Doo. Nonetheless, Wake Up Lifeless Man does what Scooby-Doo would discover taboo by including a lifeless priest to the combo and, by proxy, narrative gravitas.
Naturally, Catholic horror has been on the up and up for the reason that launch of The Exorcist in 1973—simply two months after Dick Van Dyke guest-starred on the collection finale of The New Scooby-Doo Motion pictures, by the way. Author-director Johnson has formally cracked the code on elevating a $210 million price range to rent an ensemble solid of A-list actors to play in what’s principally a cattier model of Goober and the Ghost Chasers by the use of The Rosary Murders. Hallelujah.
And what a solid we have now! Along with Daniel Craig returning for his third outing as Benoit Blanc, we have now Josh O’Connor as a younger priest, Reverend Jud Duplenticy; Glenn Shut as devoted churchgoer Martha Delacroix; Josh Brolin because the fiery Monsignor Jefferson Wicks; Mila Kunis as police chief Geraldine Scott; Jeremy Renner as city physician Nat Sharp; Kerry Washington as uptight legal professional Vera Draven; Andrew Scott as well-known writer Lee Ross; Cailee Spaeny as former live performance cellist Simone Vivane; Daryl McCormack as aspiring politician Cy Draven; and Thomas Haden Church as a groundskeeper named Samson Holt.
Who do you suppose would be the killer? Share your ideas and theories within the feedback. Wake Up Lifeless Man hits theaters November 26 for a brief run earlier than arriving on Netflix December 12.
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