{"id":484668,"date":"2025-10-09T03:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:53:12","slug":"london-film-festival-2025-opens-with-starry-knives-out-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484668\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival 2025 Opens With Starry \u2018Knives Out\u2019 Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 69th BFI<\/a> London Film Festival<\/a> opened Wednesday evening with a lively screening of Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2019s third Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, at the Southbank Centre\u2019s Royal Festival Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson was present with most of his extensive A-list cast including Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis and Andrew Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe crowd inside the Southbank Centre was just as starry, with bundles of familiar faces rolling into the theater to catch Johnson\u2019s murder mystery threequel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHigh-profile attendees included billion-dollar Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig, who made a surprise appearance at the screening, where she sat alongside her Narnia actress Emma Mackey. Andrew Lloyd Webber snuck in just before the screening, as did Running Man filmmaker and frequent BFI-dweller Edgar Wright.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGreta Gerwig on Wednesday at the \u2018Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>\u2018 opening gala for the BFI London Film Festival<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKate Green\/Getty Images for BFI<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso starring Josh O\u2019Connor, Glenn Close and Jeremy Renner, Wake Up Dead Man follows Daniel Craig\u2019s Benoit Blanc as he arrives at the scene of a murder at a rural church. Firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Brolin) has been killed, and his deputy, a young priest named Jud Duplenticy (O\u2019Connor), is the main suspect. Blanc and Duplenticy join forces to solve the crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his review<\/a> out of TIFF, Deadline\u2019s Damon Wise said that fans should not be alarmed at Johnson switching genres for the latest Knives Out flick, as Craig\u2019s Benoit Blanc and a new all-star cast of characters keep the project entertaining: \u201cDon\u2019t take that to mean that all the fun\u2019s been sucked out, though; far from it. As one character put it, \u2018There\u2019s obviously some Scooby-Doo sh*t going on round here.\u2019 And wouldn\u2019t you just know it, there damn well is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is set for release in select theaters November 26 before its streaming debut on Netflix on December 12.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe London Film Festival runs October 8-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 69th BFI London Film Festival opened Wednesday evening with a lively screening of Rian Johnson\u2019s third Knives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,127517,93955,16,15,139185],"class_list":{"0":"post-484668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-london-film-festival","13":"tag-rian-johnson","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342187239806208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}