Throughout many of the introduction to the Wake Up Dead Man portion of Saturday evening’s Netflix Tudum occasion, writer-director Rian Johnson and his starry forged, led by a folksy Daniel Craig, had enjoyable hiding what the third Knives Out thriller is about. Actually we actually don’t know. However as judged by the primary teaser trailer for the film, it’s going for a darker and extra indirect tone than the overall playfulness viewers bear in mind from Knives Out and Glass Onion, advertising included.
Within the teaser, a church bell ominously sounds in the space as photos suffused in shadow and nocturnal rains cascade down round Craig’s unexpectedly stoic Benoit Blanc. With out a charming witticism or visible gag in sight, Blanc tersely intones throughout the trailer, “The unimaginable crime. For a person of purpose that is the Holy Grail.” By all of it, a haunting hymn performs as an elegiac and Southern voice cries, “O Dying, O Dying, Gained’t you spare me over til one other 12 months.”
Whereas we nonetheless know comparatively little in regards to the plot of Wake Up Dead Man past its terrific ensemble—which incorporates Glenn Shut, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Josh Brolin, Andrew Scott, and Cailee Spaeny—the tune selection would possibly inform us loads in regards to the movie’s setting, and probably the darkish locations it intends to go.
Initially hypothesis concerning the third Knives Out image assumed that it could be set in England the place many of the movie’s manufacturing occurred. And whereas which may nonetheless be the case, we suspect the English countryside could be used to substitute for one thing a bit nearer to house for American viewers—and distinctly Southern. Certainly, many followers of the Coen Brothers possible acknowledge the tune “O, Dying” used in the trailer, for it’s the actual model sung by the late bluegrass artist Ralph Stanley in Joel and Ethan Coen’s O Brother, The place Artwork Thou? (2000).