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The film's title Wake Up Dead Man comes from a phrase in the folk song "Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos", though Johnson notes that it is also "kind of" derived from the title of the song of the same name by U2.
Johnson said his key influences were works of Edgar Allan Poe and John Dickson Carr, as well as elements of works of Agatha Christie, especially her novel And Then There Were None (1939). Carr's The Hollow Man (1935) is repeatedly referenced within the film.
In August 2025, Netflix announced that the planned theatrical release would be scaled back from earlier plans and the film would have only a token theatrical release instead before going straight to their streaming platform. Apparently, neither director Rian Johnson nor star Daniel Craig were very happy at this decision as they had both wanted audiences to have the option of seeing it shown at cinemas, but their wishes were overruled.
Church exteriors, set in New York state, were shot in England at the Church of the Holy Innocents, High Beach, Epping Forest. Additional exterior footage was shot in September 2024 in Cold Spring, New York, which served as the setting of Chimney Rock in the film.
Like the other Knives Out films, the movie contains an Easter Egg referencing the Choose Your Own Adventure series of books. The film takes place in the town of Chimney Rock, likely a reference to the fifth book of the original series, "The Mystery of Chimney Rock".
Craig was paid $100 million for his involvement in the two Knives Out sequels.
Noah Segan, who plays Nikolai, the bartender at Il Diavolo, also portrayed Trooper Wagner in Knives Out (2019) and Derol in Glass Onion (2022). Segan and Rian Johnson have been friends ever since they met on Johnson's first film Brick (2005). Johnson now makes a point of casting Segan in every film he makes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes a voice-only cameo as a baseball announcer heard on a television in the garage.
Ricky Jay, the narrator of Rian Johnson's film The Brothers Bloom (2008), is referenced in all three Benoit Blanc films. He was supposed to play the groundskeeper in Knives Out (2019), but passed away just before filming. A photo of Jay in costume is visible in the groundskeeper's shack. He is mentioned by name in Glass Onion (2022) when Blanc and Miles Bron (Edward Norton) are discussing the puzzle boxes. Here, a poster for his stage show "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants" hangs behind the bar at Il Diavolo.
Each film has Daniel Craig acting alongside at least one person that acted alongside him in a James Bond film. The first film had Ana de Armas, who co-starred in No Time to Die (2021). Glass Onion (2022) had Dave Bautista from Spectre (2015). Wake Up Dead Man (2025) has Andrew Scott from Spectre (2015), and Jeffrey Wright from Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008) and No Time to Die (2021).
As in Knives Out (2019), a brief scene in Wake Up Dead Man (2025) shows Benoit Blanc's love of listening to musical theater showtunes in his car. In the prior movie, the song was "Losing My Mind" from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies. In this movie, it is "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. He also plays "Phantom of the Opera" on the organ.
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