Throughout many of the introduction to the Wake Up Useless Man portion of Saturday night time’s Netflix Tudum occasion, writer-director Rian Johnson and his starry solid, led by a folksy Daniel Craig, had enjoyable hiding what the third Knives Out thriller is about. In truth 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 keep in mind from Knives Out and Glass Onion, advertising included.
Within the teaser, a church bell ominously sounds within the distance as photos suffused in shadow and nocturnal rains cascade down round Craig’s unexpectedly stoic Benoit Blanc. And not using a charming witticism or visible gag in sight, Blanc tersely intones through the trailer, “The not possible crime. For a person of cause that is the Holy Grail.” Via all of it, a haunting hymn performs as an elegiac and Southern voice cries, “O Dying, O Dying, Received’t you spare me over til one other 12 months.”
Whereas we nonetheless know comparatively little in regards to the plot of Wake Up Useless Man past its terrific ensemble—which incorporates Glenn Shut, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Josh Brolin, Andrew Scott, and Cailee Spaeny—the tune alternative may inform us quite a bit in regards to the movie’s setting, and probably the darkish locations it intends to go.
Initially hypothesis relating to the third Knives Out image assumed that it might 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 is perhaps used to substitute for one thing a bit of nearer to dwelling for American viewers—and distinctly Southern. Certainly, many followers of the Coen Brothers doubtless acknowledge the tune “O, Dying” used within the trailer, for it’s the precise model sung by the late bluegrass artist Ralph Stanley in Joel and Ethan Coen’s O Brother, The place Artwork Thou? (2000).