{"id":503,"date":"2025-12-20T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:30:18","slug":"wake-up-dead-man-wasted-its-supporting-cast-saved-the-knives-out-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Dead Man Wasted Its Supporting Cast (&amp; Saved The Knives Out Franchise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-alert\">Warning: Spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man ahead!<\/span>Ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/movie\/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Wake Up Dead Man<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s release, a Benoit Blanc murder mystery had already come to mean something specific. In the grand tradition of the genre, these <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/rian-johnson-films-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rian Johnson movies<\/a> surround Daniel Craig&#8217;s detective with an ensemble of famous faces, each getting to play a distinct and memorable character. One of them will emerge as that movie&#8217;s true protagonist, often someone with a strong reason to solve the case: Ana de Armas&#8217; nurse Marta in <em>Knives Out<\/em>, or Janelle Mon\u00e1e&#8217;s grieving twin Helen in <em>Glass Onion<\/em>. The others will swirl around Blanc as potential suspects, each getting a chance to stir the pot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: Spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man ahead!Ahead of Wake Up Dead Man&#8216;s release, a Benoit Blanc murder mystery had already come to mean something specific. In the grand tradition of the genre, these Rian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}