Daryl McCormack joins a cast that includes Andrew Scott and Daniel Craig in the third installment of writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series.
Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) has been announced among the actors joining the latest Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. McCormack joins an ensemble of actors including Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Kerry Washington (Scandal), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Mila Kunis (Black Swan), and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame).
Plot details of Wake Up Dead Man are yet to be revealed, and there is no information available on McCormack’s role in the film. Director Rian Johnson has teased that it is Benoit Blanc’s “most dangerous case yet", with Daniel Craig returning to play the Southern Private Detective.
This marks the first time that Irish actors Scott and McCormack will share the screen together. McCormack was nominated for the IFTA Rising Star award in 2023, and has been IFTA-nominated for his performances in Bad Sisters, The Woman in the Wall, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. He can next be seen in Twisters, opposite Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) and Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People), releasing in Irish cinemas on July 19th.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is expected to go into production soon, and is slated to release in 2025.
