Andrew Scott Joins ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ From Rian Johnson And Netflix

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Andrew Scott is the latest actor to join the growing ensemble of the next Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. He joins a cast that already includes Josh O’Connor and Cailee Spaeny. Rian Johnson is returning to direct from a script he wrote. He will also produce the pic with his partner, Ram Bergman through T-Street Pictures.

Plot details are unknown. The most recent pic, Glass Onion, bowed in 2022, with Craig returning as the world-famous detective Benoit Blanc. The film premiered on Netflix after the streamer made a record-setting $450 million deal for the two sequels, with this being the third in the series.

The film is set to go into production next month and will be released sometime in 2025.

Scott is having himself a strong 12 months after his critically acclaimed work in Netflix’s Ripley, which is sure to have him in the mix this Emmy season. He is also coming off his critically acclaimed work in Searchlight’ s All Of Us Strangers.

He is repped by CAA, United Agents and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Variety first reported the news.