Wake Up Dead Man Locations

Wake Up Dead Man is the sequel to 2022’s Glass Onion and the third entry in the Knives Out franchise. The film is a crime comedy mystery thriller written and directed by Rian Johnson, who has earned Academy Award nominations for both Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Johnson also directed “Ozymandias,” the fourteenth episode of Breaking Bad’s fifth season, considered one of the series’ best episodes.

Starring Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Andrew Scott, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Cailee Spaeny, Thomas Haden Church, and Daryl McCormack, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2025. It was released by Netflix on December 12, 2025, and received generally positive reviews.

This time, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) takes on his most dangerous investigation yet.

Where was Wake Up Dead Man Filmed?

Filming took place between June 10 and August 17, 2024, beginning in London, England. Although the story is set in New York, the church scenes were filmed at Holy Innocents Church in High Beech, Loughton, approximately 14 miles northeast of London. Additional filming locations included Leavesden Film Studios in England, as well as Cold Spring, a village in Philipstown, New York, located along the banks of the Hudson River.